TRIFIDyE. 6 1 



and flowers, to lioney-dew on sallow-leaves, and to sweets 

 generally ; also is very strongly attracted by a brilliant liglit, 

 dashing round and about it in the wildest manner; it also 

 has the curious habit, already noticed, of sitting at night on 

 the leaves of tall reeds. Attached wholly to fens, marshes, 

 and moist spots of a similar character ; rather plentiful in 

 the fens of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, and recorded as 

 having been found in great profusion at Whittlesea Mere 

 before it was drained ; still found also, in suitable places, in 

 Sussex, Surrey, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, 

 throughout the Eastern Counties, including Cambridgeshire ; 

 more rarely in North Staffordshire and Salop ; and plenti- 

 fully in some districts of Cheshire, Lancashire, and York- 

 shire. In Wales it is recorded at Neath, Glamorganshire, 

 but probably occurs in other suitable localities. Found also 

 in various localities in the districts of the Solway and 

 Clyde in the West of Scotland, and from the Forth to 

 Moray in the East ; also in the Hebrides and Shetland 

 Isles. In Ireland apparently in nearly all the counties 

 round the coast, and in the South abundantly. Abroad its 

 range is very wide — throughout Central Europe, South 

 Sweden, Livonia, the Ural Mountain district. Eastern 

 Siberia, China, Japan, the mountainous regions of Central 

 Asia ; also Canada and the Northern and Middle United 

 States ; there under the name of reniformis. 



Genus 46. HYDRiECIA. 



Antennae ciliated ; eyes naked, with very faint prostrate 

 back lashes ; thorax crested at the back ; abdomen with one 

 to four small crests ; fore wings rather pointed, the hind 

 margin slightly retuse, then expanded and almost elbowed ; 

 hind wings not very broad, vein 5 hardly perceptible, arising 

 below the middle of the cross-bar. 



LARViE naked, with dark raised dots ; feeding in or upon 

 roots of plants. 



