1,4 I.F.rinoi'TERA. 



This moth is found plentifully in northern mountain dis- 

 tricts ; and in the extreme north, and in the Shetland Isles, 

 in bogs ;uid marshes. Among the hills it seems especially to 

 frequent the gulleys down which the mountain streams pass, 

 sitting on the rocks, among the heather, and es]>ecially on 

 the undersides of overlianging liushes and trees where the 

 lattiT lean across and form an available jilace of concealment. 

 Here, if the weather is warm, it is readily disturbed, and is 

 especially lively in tiie sunshine. Hying cpiickly to another 

 hiding-place. At dusk, its natural time of flight, it seems to 

 be unusually inditf'erent to weather. Mr. Kenneth -I. ilorton 

 says: •' It is one of the few species which seem to defy cold 

 and wet, and I have seen it tlying in hundreds along a moor- 

 land ditch when it was so damp, raw, and cold that ones 

 benumbed hands could hardly manage the net. It is especi- 

 ally abundant in the high, bleak and exposed moorland tracts 

 from (iUU to lUUO feet above sea-level." There it will some- 

 times imbibe the honey from rush-blooms in dam]) hollows. 

 It is said also to lly very actively in the morning twilight, 

 and to be extremely lively for almost two hours after the 

 dawn. In Iceland, where it is most abundant in the bogs, it 

 seems to Uy naturally in some jjortion of the daylight, prob- 

 ably inlhienced thereto by tlie absence of any real night, in 

 that region, through the middle of summer. 



In England found on the mountains of Yoi'kshire, \\'est- 

 moreland and (hunberland, in some cases reaching a height 

 of 3000 feet ; and on high hills and moors in Durham and 

 Northundjerland. In Wales, 31r. IJvau John has taken it at 

 Llantrissant, (Uamorganshire, but I have no other knowledge 

 of it in the J'rincipality. In Scotland it seems to inhabit all 

 mountain districts and even the hill pastures from the 

 Cheviots northward, being found near JJerwick and Hawick, 

 on the hills of Clydesdale, and even rather rarely in Wig- 

 townshire ; abundantly in Perthshire ; Argyleshire with 

 Arran, J5ute. and .\chill ; Aberdeenshire, Inverness, Jloray, 

 Ross, and Sutherlandshire ; also in the Hebrides, Orkneys, 



