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strong spike ; bri,i;'lit red brown ; winp^ cases and dorsal area 

 darker. In a very slight silken cocoon on the surface of the 

 earth, among rubbish. 



The moth is of rather quiet habits, hiding- by day among 

 herbage in fields or on hedgebanks, and in hedges and 

 liushes generally, and when disturbed flies to but a small 

 distance, or often hides on the ground among the thick her- 

 bage and grass. At early dusk it flies naturally and i'reely, 

 but settles down after a while and is not much attracted by 

 light at night ; it has, however, been found feeding on honey- 

 dew and on ragwort and similar composite flowers. Most 

 particularly attached to lanes and hedge sides, but occurring 

 generally in fields, woods, and even gardens ; abundant 

 throughout England and Wales, except perhaps that it is 

 less common or more local in some parts of the ilidlands 

 and of the Northern Counties, and especially scarce in Dur- 

 liam and Northumberland. In Scotland it appears to be 

 scarce in some of the Southern districts, as at Hawick and 

 Wigtown ; but is more frequent in Renfrew and elsewhere 

 in Clydesdale ; also in Abei'deeushire, where it is local. It 

 occurs in the Hebrides ; and Dr. F. B. White gives its range 

 as to Moray in the east and to the Clyde Valley in the west. 

 In Ireland it seems to be very generally distributed from the 

 southern counties to Tyrone and Armagh, and in some dis- 

 tricts is abundant. 



Abroad it is found all over Europe, except some portions 

 of the extreme >South ; also in Bithynia, Tartarv. and the 

 mountainous regions of Central Asia ; and in North 

 America throughout New England, New York State, Penn- 

 sylvania, Wisconsin, California, Vancouver, Canada, and 

 Nova Scotia. 



G. C. unidentaria, ILnc — Expanse 1 inch. Fore 

 wings whitish grey; central baud black-brown, dark purple- 

 brown, or purple, evenly coloured, preceded and followed by 



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