312 LEPIDOPTERA. 



cremaster wedge-shaped and covered with short coarse 

 points; colour dark red-brown, wing: covers and anal 

 setrineut black-brown. In an elongated cocoon of silk and 

 earth, in the <rroinid. 



The rriuth hides durin<^' the dav in buckthorn bushes, is 

 sluggish, but if disturbed flutters in the shadow and then 

 mounts over the bushes ; it flies at late dusk, later at night 

 it will come to a strong light. Usually found in chalk 

 districts, where its food plant natural!}' grows ; but also 

 inhabits the small co])pices or " cars " in the fens. \'ery 

 local, but to be found in suitable spots in all the most 

 southern counties of England except Devon and Cornwall, 

 also in the ciialk districts of the other counties to Middlesex, 

 Herts. < ).\f(irdshire, Bucks, Somerset, Gloucestershire, and 

 Herefordshire ; more commonly in the Eastern Counties, 

 and even plentifully in the fens of Cambridgeshire ; beyond 

 this it is e.xcessively local and very scarce, but has been taken 

 in Dovedale, Derbyshire, ^\'(lrceste^shire, one or two places 

 in "^'orksiiire and in Westmoreland. In South A\'ales ilr. 

 Allen has found it in (I'lamorganshire. This ap])ears to be 

 the e.xtent of its range in these Islands. Abroad it is 

 found over the greater part of Central Europe, the northern 

 half of Ital}-, South Sweden, Livonia, Uoumelia, and Asia 

 ilinor; but prol)ably in other ])arts of Asia, since it occurs, 

 in a larger and jialer variety, in -lapan. 



;J. S. undulata, L. — E.xpanse \\ to 1^ inch. Wings all 

 shining pale orange-grey, clouded with fulvous, and covered 

 throughout with distinct scalloped black and grey transverse 

 lines, most strongly marked on the costa of the fore pair. 



Antenna) of the male simple, minutely ciliated, brown; 

 palpi small, depressed, dark V)rown ; face, head, and neck- 

 ridge rather rough, light brown dusted with darker; 

 thorax brown, s]iotted or dotted with black; the tuft at the 

 back blunt ; abdomen tawny-brown, the segments edged 

 with paler; anal tuft small. Fore wings broad; costa 



