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Pupa moderately thick ; anal extremity stont, and t'nr- 

 uished with a short stronj^ spike ; colour pale yellowish or 

 reddish-brown ; abdomen slightly darker ; the incisions 

 tinged with grey. In a slight silken cocoon under moss on 

 the surface of the groand. (Chas. Fenn.) 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth flies often in a lively manner in the afternoon 

 sunshine, or if at rest among heather or bedstraw is readily 

 disturbed and sufiiciently active. At dusk it again flies even 

 more freely. Usually on heaths in mountain districts, but 

 occasionally in fir woods, and in the north Hitting about the 

 borders of the farms. In the South of England it is found 

 commonly on Dartmoor and some other of the high hills of 

 Devon, and in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire ; more- 

 over. Mr. A. E. Hudd assures me that he has himself taken 

 it in Leigh Woods near Bristol, and knows of its occurrence 

 elsewhere in Somersetshire. In Herefordshire it is found on 

 the Black Mountain ; and as the high hills of Staftbrdshire 

 and Derbyshire are reached begins to be more generally 

 common, extending through Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham. 

 Northumberland, Cumbei'land, and doubtless AVestmoreland. 

 It has also • been found quite recently by the Rev. C. F. 

 Thornewill to be common in the Longwynd, Salop. In Wales 

 Mr. Vivian has taken it in Glamorganshire. I have seen it 

 commonly on the slopes of the Preselly Mountains in Pem- 

 brokeshire, and believe that it may be found on all heathery 

 mountain sides throughout the Principality. Abundant in 

 many parts of Scotland, from Roxburgh and Hawick to 

 Argyle and Sutherland, and found in small numbers in the 

 Shetland Isles. In Ireland on the ^Mountains of AVicklow 

 and Waterford, in Galway, the Burreu of Clare, on the 

 Mourne Mountains in the County Down, and on the hills of 

 Fermanagh, Antrim, and Derry. Abroad it has a wide range 

 through Northern and Central Europe, Northern Italy, 

 Dalmatia, Northern and Eastern Turkey, and Armenia. In 

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