27S LEI'inOPTEkA. 



black ; Ijoily rouL'li or wrinkled : IjotL head and body emit 

 sliort. scattered bristles, each bfistle arisinti- from a scarcely- 

 perceptible wart : all the segments swollen in the middle 

 and especially below, but without dorsal liuni]>s : brown, of 

 various shades, tlie dorsal area decidedly darker than the 

 ventral, and separated by a clear line of demarcation, but the 

 tenth to fliirtoentli segments have the same pale line above 

 and beliiw ; the second, third, and fourth segments marked 

 with a whitish dorsal stripe; the lifth to the ninth each with 

 a (lark V-shaprd mark, pointing towards the head, and its 

 arms extending on each side as far as the spiracles ; each 

 V-sha])ed mark' contains a medium dark mark, i-omewhat 

 shaped like an arrow-head, and bordered with a ])ale margin : 

 the nndersurface is traversed by grey, waved, interrupted 

 and not clc^arly-defined stripes, extending tliroughout its 

 entire length ; spiracles deep black. (H. Newman.) 



May, and the early part of -lune, ou Gnliuiii iqiurinf 

 (cleavers), (,'. niiiUinju, and rather unwillingly ou G. snyafilr. 

 In confinement quite content to eat A^pd-i'lc oifora/c- (wood- 

 ruff;. 



Pll'A ap])areutly undescribed, but Mr. 'Welib tells me 

 that it is plnced in a very slightlv-constructed cucoon, in 

 i'act only a few threads, amongst the food ]ilar.t ; also that 

 frecpiently the moth is so far perfected within the pujia skin 

 that the markings can be distinctly seen through the wing- 

 covers so early as August, remaining thus until its time of 

 emei'gence at the end of A])ri!. This seems to be a very 

 uncommon habit in any others of the (noimfrldn. 



The winter is passed in the pupa state. 



Till' moth is of very quiet habits, hiding during the day 

 among lierl)age on hedge banks, or in thick hedges and 

 buslies, and if dislodged it Hies gently to a similar hiding- 

 place. .\t dusk it is on tlie wing of its own accord, but only 

 for about twenty minutes or half-an-hour, when it again hides 

 itself, ilost curiously local — that is, attached to perhaps one 



