io8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



One of those floured by ilr. W. Buckler has tlie black 

 spots above-mentioned, with in each case an intermediate 

 elongated dorsal spot, enclosed in a white blotch, aromid 

 which is a broad shading of dark red-brown. 



June and July, and in a second generation at the end of 

 Autrnst and in September ; on GnUum vcrum, ii. nwllngo, 

 G. sa.mtilc, and other species of bedstraw. 



!'[ I'A short, shining yellow-brown : segments finely pitted ; 

 :mal segment knobbed ; cremaster short, rounded, and stumpy, 

 (llofmann.) 



The moth especially loves to hide among overhanging roots 

 of grasses and coarse plants, on coast sandhills, where the 

 wind has shifted away the sand ; and from such places may 

 often be dislodged in numbers, when it will lly rapidly 

 away to some similar hiding place. Elsewhere it hides 

 among herbage on the hill sides, and at the foot of rocks, or 

 any similar shelter; always alert and easily disturbed in the 

 daytime, but Hying of its own accord at dusk; and at night 

 may be attracted by a strong light. More particularly 

 attached to the coast, especially so where chalk or oolite 

 exists or where limestone hills are bordered towards the sea 

 by extensive sandhills ; but found also inland not uncom- 

 monly upon cretaceous formations. Abundant on the coasts 

 and adjoining hills in Fvent, Sussex, Hants, with the Isle of 

 AVight ; Dorset, especially the Isle of Portland ; Devon, 

 Cornwall with the Scilly Isles; and to be found, often 

 eommonlj-, as already stated, in the inland portions of these 

 comities, and in Surrey, Middlesex, Berks, Oxfordshire, 

 Wilts, Somerset, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire; rarely 

 in the Eastern counties, and in Derbyshire and Stattbrdshire ; 

 in Yorkshire much more commonly, also on the coasts of 

 Cheshire, Lancaishire. and \\'estmorelan(l. In AVales it is 

 abundant in Glamorganshiie, and not scarce on the Pembroke 

 coast; also common at J5armouth and in other suitable places 

 on tlie coast of North Wales. In Scotland much less common. 



