,5i,K lEI'lDOI'lEKA. 



exception oi tlie siiiodth liind-hancls. wliicli aii' ridt^cd anii 

 sharply inar<,'ined ; aual segment very conical, yet thickened 

 toward the tip and bearing a tapering creniaster, thi' spike 

 of wliich is long, bilid, and strongly hooked at the tij). 

 (leneral colour dark red-brown, abdominal segments darker, 

 their divisions much ])aler; cremaster Ijlack-brown. In a 

 strong thick ovate cocoon of silk and earth ; in the ground. 



The moth sits, during the ilay. on the trunk of an aspen 

 or white poplar, disregarding the sunshine, or if then dis- 

 turbed runs hastily to another place upon the saiue tree- 

 trunk with wings closely held down trying to hide itself, or 

 if too ir)uch alarmed Hies to another tree. With the bark of 

 these trees its colour and markings correspond in an admir- 

 able manner. The natural tlight is after suuset and through 

 the dusk, still around the same trees, and at a moderate 

 height; but doubtless there is a further ilight in the night. 

 An exceedingly local species, yet widely distributed; taken 

 in small areas in Kent, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Devon, Corn- 

 wall. Somerset, Herks, iliddlesex, Kssex, Suffolk, in one 

 locality in Norfolk, in Cambs, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, 

 (iloiicestersliire, Herefordshire, AVorcestershire. in one spot 

 in Staffordshire, in Cheshire, South Yorkshire, and Cumber- 

 land. In Wales Mr. \'ivian records it in (ilamoiganshire. 

 In Scotland it is probably but sparingly distril)uted, yet is 

 found in Terthshire — rather commonly at Moncriefie Hill - 

 in Aberdeenshire, Inverness, and Sutherlandshire : in Ireland, 

 at Limerick, in Louth, Calway, .Mayo. Cavan, and Tyroiie. 

 Abroad it is distributed over Central i'hirope. Northern 

 I'jurope to South Ijapland, Central and Northern Italy, 

 Southern Russia, Tartary,and -lapan; and in North America 

 at Long Island, but known under the name of 'uicijunl'inic. 



:>. L, sexalata, //"/-.; sexalisata, Stmnl. C«/.— Ex- 

 panse ''l to 1 inch. I'ore wings white, banded with blackish- 

 grey at the base, middle, and hind margin, the central band 

 darkekit toward the costa. Hind winjjs smokv-white. with a 



