42^^ I.EI'IDOI'TERA. 



yellow brown; abdomeii more rcddi.'-li-ld-owii. In a veiy thin 

 weak cocoon at some depth in the earth, usually attached to 

 a stone or root. 



The moth hides during the day among heather, cotton- 

 grass, and other plants, close to the ground, in the dampest 

 portions of boggy heaths, where the cranberrj- grows ; and 

 if the wind is strong may frequently be seen sitting on the 

 boggy earth facing it. At this time it may sometimes be 

 boxed as it sits; but usually it llies up in a lively manner 

 and hurries away a few yards to seek- another shelter; if 

 small fir trees or birch bushes are on the grountl it will often 

 hide in these, and it' disturbed tly to another, yet its usual 

 habit certainly is to rest near the ])eaty earth. In warm 

 weather it is so restless as to seem upon the wing at all 

 times, and niay be found paired, or lluttering round a freshly 

 em(>rged female, quite in the forenoon. Its time of most 

 ordinary Hight is. hoivever, at dusk, and it will tlien some- 

 times feed at the blossoms of bell-heath (i'/-«rt tttmlur). Its 

 home is on the " tnosses " of the northern counties, and even 

 some parts of the AMidland^,and I know of no capture of this 

 s])ecies in the .southern half of Kugland. Its most southern 

 locality with us is. I think, ('hartley Moss, and perhaps 

 similar bogs in Stalfordshire, and it is found in such places, 

 sometimes in plenty, in Derbyshire. Cheshire, Lancashire. 

 ^'orkshire, Westmoreland. Cumberland, and formerly in 

 I hirham and Northundjei'land. So far as I know it is absent 

 fi-om Wales. In Scotland it has very many haunts, and is 

 l)lentiful in most of them : found in ISerwickshire. the Cleish 

 Hills near Edinburgh, \\'igtowu>hire, Clydesdale, South 

 Argyleshire, Stirliiigshire, Perthshire. xVberdeenshire. Inver- 

 ness, West Ross, and probably all suitable places on the 

 mainland, also extending to the Orkneys and Siietlaud Isles 

 but apparently not yet noticed in the Outer Hebrides. In 

 Ireland the records are very meagre, but it is known to occur 

 in Westmeath and Calwax. and on the ijanksof the Shannon 



