174 LErinOPTERA. 



!i right angle ami the anterior segineats gracefully bent ; 

 when disturbed it twists still more, and finally rolls into a 

 compact ring as it falls to the ground. 



I'li-A yellow-brurt'n ; head, doi'sal region, and wing-covers 

 olive green; spiracles black; cremaster dark brown and 

 furnished with six bristles. filofmann.) The winter is 

 passed in cocoon, but apparently as a larra, the change to 

 pupa talcing place in t!ie spring. 



The moth sits during the day on rock-faces, or the trunks 

 of trees, or among heather and nndergrowth, and in certain 

 districts in the sheltered overhanging ledges of roots on the 

 sea-sandhills. If is lively and shj- of approach, Init flies only 

 to a similar hiding ])lace ; Hying naturally at dusk. It is 

 mainly an inhabitant of mountain districts and of high hills, 

 and is found even far south, in such situations, ou Dartmoor 

 and Exmoor, Devon ; indeed, a single specimen has been 

 taken ou the open heath at J51oxworth, Dorset, by the llev. 

 (>. I'. Cambridgr. In this country its more usual range 

 seems to commence in Derbyshire — where it has been taken 

 i-arelv at Dovedale — and on the moors and hills of Cheshire. 

 ^'orkshire, and Lancashire, in the last-named county extend- 

 ing to the sea-side at Fleetwood ; further north it is abundant 

 in Westmoreland and t'undjerlaud, more scarce in Xorth- 

 uinberland. In Wales it is recorded as occurring i-arelj' in 

 (iiamorganshiie by Sir Thos. Llewelyn ; and is found more 

 plentifully in the mountains of the northern portion. In 

 Scotland in Jloxburghshire, Perthshire, Arran and elsewhere 

 in .\rgyleshire, Dumbartonshire, Aberdeenshire, lloss, Skye 

 ami the Outer Hebrides, the Orkneys, and doubtless in many 

 intermeiliate localities. In Ireland also widely spread ou the 

 lulls, and in the north descending to the coast in plenty ; 

 indeed. I have myself taken it on the sandhills of the County 

 Down; elsewhere it is recorded from Kinsale, Cork; the 

 Wicklow >biuntains, Louth, Mayo, Clare, (ialway, Sligo, 

 'i'yrone, Armagh, Donegal, Antrim, and Derry. Abroad 



