178 /.F.PIDO/'TF.RA. 



not verv active, Hyinir quietly to another liidiug'-place. The 

 female is siuj^gish at tiiat time, but is more given to sitting 

 visibly upon tree ti-unks, rocks, walls, or palings. Hut 

 sometimes the males will become restless and iiy in abundance 

 in the sunshine, and in the far north- — as in Norway — where 

 there is but little night while it is out, the habit of flight 

 during sunshine seems to be established. Hut at dusk the 

 hill-sides, heaths and waste places appear to be alive with 

 their myriads, the females then climbing up the heather and 

 other i)lants, or Hying more gently about. At no time does 

 either sex do more than hovei' and flit quietly over the same 

 few yards of ground, never rising to any height in the air, 

 or, apparently, moving to any distance. It has been seen 

 feeding upon honeydew. but only in vei-y casual instances; 

 but has been observed in niultitudes at the flowers of rushes. 

 Abundant throughout the I'nited Kingdom, including the 

 Shetland Isles. Abroad over great part of Central Europe, 

 Northern Europe including Lapland, Piedmont, and the L'ral 

 Mountain district. 



II. C. inultistrigaria, Ifmr. — Expanse 1 to 1] inch. 

 Fore wings silky brownish-white, dusted and dotted with 

 dark grev. and having dull grey basal, central, and marginal 

 bands, the ground colour ap])earing mainly in pale dots. 

 Hind wings duslcy-white. Female smaller with sharper fore 

 wings. 



AntenniL' of the male pectinated with short, oblique, very 

 brittle teeth, blackish-brown, base of the shaft whitish at the 

 back ; ])alpi very short. I)lack ; face smooth, white ; head also 

 white, clouded with ])ale brown ; neck-ridge similar; thorax 

 greyish-white, dusted with olive-brown, tuft of scales at the 

 back broad but very much depressed; abdomen slender, dirty 

 whitish-brown; lateral tufts conspicuous; anal tuft small. 

 Fore wings elongated, and rather extended at the apex ; 

 costa a little arched at the base and tip. nearly straiglit 

 between ; apex liluntly angnlated : hind maigin long and 



