LAREiXrrD.E-CIDARIA. 2S3 



tlie gronnil. (Funiished for description by I\lr. W. H. 

 Har\yood.) 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth hides during- the day in thick hedges and among 

 bushes in damp woods, also among rank herbage where 

 willow-herb is plentiful ; it willingly avails itself of the shelter 

 of thick thatch ; but is easily disturbed. At dusk it flies of 

 its own accord, in lanrs and in the outskirts and open places 

 of woods : will come occasionally to the sugar spread on 

 trees to attract Xoiiiiiv, and even, in the second generation, 

 to heather-liloom : later at night it seems to fly abroad more 

 generally, since it will come, about midnight, to a strong 

 light. Besides the situations already mentioned, it is said in 

 some districts especialK- tofrequent/"'('(7/ woods; and although 

 somewliat local may be found in suitable places throughout 

 England from Cornwall to Northumberland — with the 

 exception of some portions of the ]\lidlands — and most likely 

 throughout Wales, though the only records that I possess are 

 that of ifr. Vivian in Glamorganshire, Mr. Greening's in 

 Denliighsliire, and my own in Pembrokeshire. In Scot- 

 land it is found on the hills of the Edinburgh district, also 

 about Berwick and Hawick : and to the west in Clydesdale 

 and Arran ; also in Perthshire and other suitable districts to 

 Moray and West Ross, but nut. I think, in the other Isles. 

 In Ireland it a])pears, curioush', to have a nurtluni range from 

 Galway and Westmeath thi'ough Sligo, Fermanagh, Cavan, 

 Tyrone, Antrim, and Derry, and to be in some of these 

 common, but there seems to lie no record of it in the south. 

 Abroad its distribution is very great, through Northern and 

 Central Europe, Tartary, the mountain regions of Central 

 Asia, Cliina, Corea, and Japan. In North America it is 

 known in Labrador, and Canada with Anticosti, and so far as 

 I can judge also in New York. Pennsylvania, and New- 

 England, where it seems to be calh-d al rnnjlvrnlii. 



in. C. prunata, /-. — Expanse l-j to 1,5 inch. Fore wiugs 



