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cremaster rather conical, the tip furnished with a spike and 

 some hooked bristles ; colour grey-brown or pale green. In 

 a loose cocoon among the fallen juniper leaves. 



The moth hides in the juniper bushes during the day and 

 is hardly to be disturbed at that time, except that a casual 

 specimen may be shaken into the net when beating for larvae 

 or for Argyrcsthim. At dusk it creeps out, and doubtless 

 flies a little about the bushes, yet settles down at once to sit 

 on the outside twigs, from which it can be secured with the 

 utmost ease by the aid of a lantern. Forty years ago it was 

 to be found in plenty on the hill-side just outside Croydon, 

 in Surrey, on ground long since covered with houses ; and it 

 still exists in greater or less numbers wherever juniper grows 

 in plenty on the chalk hills of Surrey, Sussex. Kent, and 

 Berks, but does not seem to have been noticed elsewhere in 

 the South of England. In the Eastern Counties the only 

 record that I know of is at Dalham, Suffolk ; and in the 

 north Mr. Robson has found it on moors near Durham. In 

 Wales, also, there is but a single record, a specimen having 

 been taken on one of the slopes of Snowdon in the year 1880 

 by Mr. A. F. Griffiths. But in Scotland it is widely distri- 

 buted, being found near Hawick, on the Pentlands near 

 Edinburgh ; in the Solway district, and on the hills border- 

 ing the Clyde Valley ; in Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Kincar- 

 dineshire, Ross-shire, and Moray ; also in the Orkney and 

 Shetland Isles. From Ireland it appears to be absent, or 

 overlooked, except that a few specimens have been found at 

 Clonbrock, in the County Galvvay, which, as Mr. Kane 

 suggests, may have been introduced with the junipers culti- 

 vated in the grounds. 



Abroad it is found throughout a great part of Central 

 Europe, Central and Northern Italy, Finland, and Livonia . 



