346 LErinOPTRRA. 



pale ochreoiis ; below it is a minute waved pale thread, 

 followed by a pale ochreous spiracular shade, spiracles black ; 

 raised dots black, each bearing a short blackish bristle ; oa 

 the filth to the ninth segments, each, is a pair of small white 

 spots divided by the dorsal line ; undersurface of the ground 

 colour, with two grey stripes of irregular width ; between 

 these and the sides is a pale brown waved line. 



Or — Dull brownish-ochreous, dorsal blotches irregular, 

 divided on some of the segments by the dorsal line ; 

 spiracular stripe more distinctly ochreous. 



Or — Dor.sal nmrkiugs altered to a brown line edged with 

 ochreous on the second to fourth and last three segments ; on 

 the internu'diate having a series of blackish-brown blotches, 

 often quadrate in form. (Chas. Feun.) 



August and iSe])tember; on Clcinutis ritalba (traveller's 

 joy), feeding at night, but remaining upon its food-plant 

 during the day. 



Pupa stout, rapidly tapering ; anal extremity produced, 

 and terminated by two parallel bristh's ; covers of the eyes, 

 wings, and legs projecting ; deep dark red-brown ; wing 

 cases with a greenisli tinge. In a thin silken cocoon, spun 

 inimediatfly beneath the surface of tlie ground. (C. Fenn.) 



The moth hides during the day among the thick masses of 

 its food-plant, the wild clematis, or traveller's joy, and is readily 

 disturbed by the beating stick, but, though active, is reluc- 

 tant to Qy far from the spot, and usually tries to hide itself 

 again in the same thick masses. Its natural time of llightis 

 at dusk, wlien, from its colour, it is far from conspicuous. A 

 local species, but often common where the clematis grows in 

 plenty in chalky districts ; formerly not scarce in the out- 

 skirts of I.ondon. where chalky inllueuces are not absent ; 

 now far more rai-e ; locally plentiful in Kent, Sussex, Hants, 

 and Dorset; very local in Devon, .Somerset, Berks, Oxford- 

 shire, Bucks, Uerts, Middlesex, Surrey, Essex, Suffolk, Nor- 

 folk, and Cambridgeshire ; also found in Gloucestershire, 



