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dorsal and spiracular lines pale oclireous, the latter edged 

 aliave with brown ; these lines are most distinct on those 

 segments ou which the dorsal line appears ; spii'acles black ; 

 ordinary raised dots whitish but indistinct ; a pale ventral 

 band margined ou each side with grey, encloses an inter- 

 rupted dark grey line ; first pair of prolegs broadly marked 

 iu front with black. (C. Fenn.) Of Mr. Buckler's figures 

 one has the ground-colour purplish-pink, the other dark 

 purple-brown. 



•July and the earl}- part of August ou (ia/inm inulhujo, 

 (t. vcruin. and probably other species of bedstraw ; feeding 

 at night. If touched it falls down, feigning death, but does 

 not curl up its anterior segments. 



Pupa short and stout, eye-covers prominent, smooth ; 

 wing-covers thick, shining, but minutely and sparingly 

 sculptured with incised lines ; limb-covers very smooth and 

 compact, but those of the anteunre barred across ; dorsal 

 surface with the dorsal segments minutely sculptured with 

 incised lines, but the abdominal segments with minute pitting 

 except that there is a narrow smooth, hoop-like band on the 

 hinder edge of each ; whole surface red-brown, except the 

 anal segment and cremaster, which are black, the latter 

 knobbed and finished off with a bifid spike ; beneath this the 

 anal structure forms a wide depression. In the earth in a 

 loose cocoon of silk and sand. 



In this condition through the winter: and it has been 

 known to lie over a second winter. 



The moth hides during tlie dav among its food-plant and 

 neighbouring coarse herbage, or else in bushes and hedges, 

 and may be distm-bed by the beating-stick. It flies naturally 

 ut dusk, and later at night, at wliich tinu' both sexes are 

 strongly atti-acted by light. It is said to have a habit of 

 living rather high aud tumbling suddenly down. It was 

 formerly common iu lanes in the immediate vicinity of 

 Ljndou. but this is l)v no means now the case. Itsfavourite 



