322 LEPIDOPTERA. 



gardens and slinibberies, ou tlie cultivated spi-cicn — Brrheris 

 (hilcis. Miihonin /•^'///(/b/ia (holly-barberry), and others. AVhen 

 young it spins together two leaves, the u])perside of one 

 closely applied to the underside of the other, so that the 

 edges coincide, aud lives between, eating the uudersurface 

 of the upper leaf. 



I'lTA slmrt and thick, rounded in front of the head ; eye- 

 covers globose, limb-covers well developed ; antenna-covers 

 marked with de|)ressions at the antenna! joints ; wing-cases 

 dull from abundance of crowded sculpture of fine incised lines ; 

 dorsal and abdominal segments more glossy, moderately 

 pitted, but the hind bands smooth; anal segment very 

 bluntly rounded ; cremaster short, conical, furnished with a 

 shoi't bifurcated spike; dark red-brown; cremaster black- 

 brown. In a thick, oval, tough cocoon of silk, covered with 

 earth ; in the ground. In this condition through the winter. 



'{'he moth hides during the day about its food plants, or 

 in closely concealed corners among rubbish, but is rarely 

 observed at that time. It flies at dusk, and is strongly 

 attracted by light. Indeed, in the suburl)s of Ijondon, where 

 it is more especiall_v to l)e found, preserved by its partiality 

 for the cultivated barberries, it is almost solely taken by 

 this attraction ; its fliglit at dusk being short and its appear- 

 ance on the wing very inconspicuous. In the country it is 

 usually less common, yet occurs about gardens, aud in lanes 

 where any barberry is to be found in the hedges ; rather 

 scarce in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Devon ; and local in 

 Wilts, Bucks, Somerset, Ciloucestershire, and llerefordsliire ; 

 in the eastern counties, where barberry is sometimes to be 

 found commonly, it is frequent, es])ecially so in Suflblk ; the 

 I'ecords in other counties — at Harrow and Buxton, Derby- 

 shire ; iiurtoM, Leicestershire: .Market Drayton, Salop; 

 Hartlejiool, Durham ; and several localities in Yorkshire — 

 are probably due to its love for cultivated barberries. In 

 Walesit has been i'uundin (ilamorganshii-e liy .Mr.X'ivian. and 



