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abdomen slender ; wing-covers strongl\- ridged in the form 

 of the nervures of the wing, and every ridge channelled with 

 cross-sculpture ; limb-covers also roughly sculptured atid 

 segments strongly pitted ; colour black -brown ; the seg- 

 mental divisions yellow ; anal segments swollen ; cremaster 

 wedge-shaped ; finished off with a sharp slender spike. In 

 a slight cocoon of silk and earth, in the ground. 

 In this condition through the winter. 



This delicate little moth is a very lazy creature at all times, 

 but particularly so in the daytime, when it sits with wings 

 squeezed fiat against the underside of a leaf in a bush, and 

 if shaken oti' flutters helplessly to the ground. After sunset 

 it begins to fly about the bushes in the quietest possible 

 manner, more like a moderate-sized snow-flake than anything 

 else, and never going out of the immediate neighbourhood of 

 its favourite bushes. These are usually, if not always, in 

 the open portions of woods, and along their broader paths, 

 but especially in those portions in which the undergrowth 

 has been cut down and is beginning to grow thickly again. 

 In many woods in the South of England it is very plentiful, 

 and absent from verj- few, yet apparently unknown in the 

 western half of Cornwall. In some of the less wooded 

 districts of the Eastern counties it is ver\" scarce, and in the 

 Midlands decidedly local ; commoner in the west, and to be 

 found in suitable spots even to Cumberland and Northumber- 

 land. In Wales it seems to have a considerable distribution, 

 though I found it rarely in Pembrol^eshire. In Scotland it 

 has been found in the south-west to Clydesdale, and also in 

 Perthshire, but apparently not farther north nor in tlu^ 

 Eastern districts. In Ireland still more rarely, having been 

 taken once in \Vicklow and reported from (lalway. 



Abroad it has a wide range, through Central Europe. 

 Central and Northern Italy, Corsica, Livonia, Turkey. 

 Armenia, Tartary. Corea. Central and North-eastern China, 

 Yesso, and Japan. 



