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feeding up in July ; but this, if usual with us, certainly only 

 occurs in a very limited degree. 



Pupa. Thickest in the middle, the wing and limb-covers 

 rather thickened ; antenna-covers barred with the forms of 

 the joints ; wing-covers very minutely inscribed with fine 

 wrinkled lines ; dorsal segments more strongly wrinkled ; 

 abdominal segments coarsely j)itted on a rather narrow band, 

 the smootli hind bands strongly ridged ; cremaster conical, 

 furnished with a pair of long parallel spikes, hardly darker 

 than the body. Thorax and wing-cases dark olive, the latter 

 rather paler and transparent at the edges ; abdomen 

 mahogany-red. Enclosed in a slight earthen cocoon. 



No outdoor species is, or can be, more intimately familiar 

 than this ; it hides itself in the day in every bush, in every 

 wood margin, coppice, open common, field, hedge bank, or 

 garden ; is always perfectly ready to tiutter out on the 

 smallest provocation, yet in no way alarmed, perfectly 

 satisfied to flutter slowly back to the same bush, or the next, 

 or any neighbouring herliage, and to again hide itself under 

 a leaf, which you can promptly touch with your finger, and 

 so induce a repetition of the same indifferent movements. 

 Its natural flight is at dusk, and is unlike that of many 

 other species, being rather of a buzzing character, hovering 

 about any little bit of hedge or bank, and apparently never 

 removing to any great distance. Also it seems to have no 

 pronounced tastes, since, though it will come occasionall}' to 

 light, not more than a specimen or two out of surrounding 

 hundreds will be seen to be so attracted. Similarly a few 

 specimens will be found at honey-dew, or at the flowers of 

 ragwort, and other plants, yet this is only casually and in 

 places where, had these sweets any real attraction for them, 

 multitudes would be feeding. Apparently in great abundance 

 throughout the United Kingdom, except the higher portions 

 of some of the northern mountains ; hardly absent from the 

 middle of the largest city, or the most barren moor or 



