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In tliis condition tlirougli the winter. 



Tiie moth especially frequents hmes and hedges, hiding 

 during the day in thick bushes, especially in blackthorn 

 bushes where these grow among the wild rose ; but it some- 

 times sits upon a post, or rail, or fence, with fore wings quite 

 down over the hind. Rather sluggish in the day, and 

 unwilling to ^Ay, yet it may sometimes be disturbed by the 

 beating-stick. At dusk it flies freely along the hedge-sides ; 

 and has been taken occasionally feeding, along with the 

 Noctucc, at the blooming sallows. 



Apparently common throughout England, Wales, and 

 Ireland, but in Scotland extending in the west only to the 

 Clyde Valley, in the east to Aberdeenshire and Moray. 



Abroad it has a wide range, through Central Europe, 

 Central and Northern Italy, Dalmatia, Finland, Southern 

 and Eastern Russia, the mountain regions of Central Asia, 

 and Japan. 



•k A. derivata, /SW (^/f. ; nigrofasciaria, ,SY«?((?. Cat. — 

 Expanse I^ to \\ inch. Body very slender; fore wings 

 ovate, smooth silvery brownish-white, shading behind to pale 

 purplish-brown ; two dark brown transverse stripes lie near 

 the base, and a similar streamer crosses the apical area from 

 the costa. Hind wings dusky brownish-white. 



Antenna; of the male simple, ciliated, pale brown ; palpi 

 small and blunt, and, with the face and head, light reddish- 

 brown ; eyes black ; collar reddish-brown ; thorax very pale 

 brown, with two minute raised tufts, tipped with white at 

 the back; abdomen light brown, dusted with darker; anal 

 tuft spreading. Fore wings somewhat ovate ; costa arched 

 throughout ; apex very bluntly angulated, almost rounded ; 

 hind margin evenly curved ; dorsal margin also faintlj' 

 rounded ; shining greyish-white shaded off behind into pale 

 purplish-brown ; basal blotch pale purple-brown sharply 

 edged by a curved black-brown stripe ; first line a rich red- 

 brown transverse stripe widest on the costn, broadly edged on 



