LAREXTin.-K- CIDARL 1. 2S7 



The moth hides dui'iug the day in bushes, especially in its 

 food-plants, and certainly often avails itself of the dense 

 protection of blackthorn bushes. At that time it is rather 

 sluggish and unwilling to be disturbed. At dusk it flies 

 freely in gardens along the paths and between the small fruit 

 bushes, also along blackthorn hedges ; and will very occa- 

 sionally come to a strong light after dark. Not everywhere 

 common, but to be found in favoured spots throughout 

 England, though scarce in the most uortliern counties ; 

 apparently also, though more locally, throughout Wales. In 

 Scotland, in iSouthern districts to Cl_ydesdale, in the west, but 

 eastward much farther north, extending at least to Aberdeen- 

 shire, where it is found in gardens at a height of 1300 feet 

 aliove sea-level ; also recorded from the Orkneys. In Ireland 

 it is to be found in gardens in Du))lin County, Galwav, West- 

 meath, Dowu, Armagh, and Derry. 



Abroad it has a wide range, through Central and Northern 

 Europe, the northern half of Italy, Dalmatia, the Ural 

 Mountain district, North-eastern Siberia, and the mountain 

 regions of Central Asia; in North America among the 

 mountains of New Hampshire. Colorado, Utah, and California; 

 also in Vancouver and Labrador. 



11. C. clotata, L.; associata, iSfftml. Cut. — E.\-panse 

 1^ inch. I'ore wings yellow clouded with ochreous ; basal, 

 iirst and second lines all angulated, jiurplish-brown ; cilia 

 chequered. Hind wings yellowish-white. 



Antenna? of the male minutely notched throughout, 

 ciliated, yellow; palj.i long, projecting, yellowish-brown; 

 face yellowish-white ; head pale ochreous ; neck-ridge 

 yellowish-white ; thora.'c ochreous, paler behind, tuft at the 

 back only just perceptible; abdomen long and slender, pale 

 yellow-brown ; lateral and anal lufts paler. Fore wiuo-s 

 broad, somewhat ovate ; costa gently arched throughout • 

 apex angulated ; hind margin beneath it in a slight decree 

 refuse, then fully expanded and curved : dorsal margin also 



