262 I.F./'/rutPTF.RA. 



toward the extremities; lie;i(l liL'lit yellow-brown spotted and 

 streaked with dark-browii ; Ixidy In-ownish-bufr, pale olive- 

 brown, or reddish-brown ; dorsal line represented by a black- 

 browa elongated spot on the back of each segment to the 

 ninth, these diminishing in size and intensity regularly 

 toward the trout; subdorsal stripes dusky-brown, freckled 

 and confused ; spiracular stripe dusky-brown, irregular, en- 

 closing two thin wavy black threads ; spiracles black ; under- 

 surface paler than the upper, and dotted with black at the 

 divisions of the segments. 



August and the earlier jtart of September ; on chickweed 

 (Alsinc mcdvi), also on Strlhtriii holostca, S. i/mmima. 

 S. aquatka and C'rriis/i/im i/lomrralum ; feeding at night ; 

 hiding during th.- day close to the ground. 



l'l'l".\ light reddish hrown, in a slight cocoon at the surface 

 of the earth. ( Ivev. 1'. II. .Ii-iinings.) 

 In this condition through tin- winter. 



The moth loves to hide in tall strong bushes and hedges at 

 the edge of a wood, or in those hedges which border hollow 

 lanes in wooded districts ; or if the wind is rough, among 

 the more sheltered growth at their base ; it is easily dis- 

 turbed by the beating stick, and Hies vigorously and hastily 

 to a similar hiding-place. Its natural time of Hight is at 

 dusk. A s|)ecies of handsome and striking appearance. 

 Rather local, yet found in such places as I have indicated, 

 sometimes commonly, in Kent. Susse.x, Surrey. Hants, 

 Dorset, Devon, Cornwall (rarely), Somerset, Wilts, JJerks, 

 Oxfordshire, Ibickinghamshire, Hssex, .Suffolk, Norfolk, 

 (iloueestershire. Herefordshire, and ^lidvern, Worcestershire. 

 I']xcei)t that .Mr. Stainton records it at Conway, and .Mr. A. 0. 

 Walker at liuthin, Denbigh, both in North Wales, I have no 

 reason to believe it to inhabit any other portion of the United 

 l\in<>:dom. Abroad it is fouml throughout Central fkirope. 

 Livonia, the Ural .Mountain district, and in China and .lapan. 



