145 LEPIDOPTKRA. 



leL^s have hecome lengthened, takiiiL;' tlit> form of those of the 

 moth, and that pectinated anteumu, as of a male moth, have 

 been produced. Mr. .lones says: "The eggs hatched in 

 .\n<rnst 1882, and 1 noticed nothing ]iarticnlar about the 

 young larvii) until the end of November, when 1 observed 

 that one was considerably larger and was evidently more 

 forward and thriving than the others. 1 watched it care- 

 fully, and found it almost continuously feeding, and keeping 

 steadily to its food {Priiiiula ruli/ari'i), with which the larv;e 

 were liberally supplied during the past mild winter. On 

 February 15th I was astonished to find that this forward 

 individual had developed the antenna^ of the imago, but 

 without in any other way altering its larval appearance. 

 I'or a space of two or three days the antenna' were beauti- 

 fully jiectinated, and then the prolegs, like those of the imago, 

 became perfect, being, with the abnormal antenna', of the 

 appearance of uncoloured gelatine, IJoth antenna' and legs 

 then gradually shrank and dried until the 2itth, and as the 

 larva showed signs of dying I thought it better to preserve 

 it while possible." This occurrence is so rare that all the 

 details seem worthy of ])reservation. 



]^ri"A slender, red-brown. Apparently not more fully 

 described. 



The moth inhabits woods, lanes, and hedges, but espe- 

 <nally woods, iiiding among their bushes, or sitting uj)on the 

 grass and herbage of hedge banks, and is very easily dis- 

 turbed during the day. At dusk it (lies sometimes in such 

 multitudes in open wood ])aths that it is almost impossible 

 to see any other species. Abundant throughout the United 

 Kingdom, even occurring in plenty on the Scottish moun- 

 tains, and there, and in the Isles, hiding among heather, 

 grass, and any herbage. 



Abroad it is plentiful through Northern and Central 

 l",urope, Spain, Central and Northern Italy, Corsica, .Southern 

 Russia. Tartarv, and the mountainous regions of Central Asia, 



