r62 LEPIDOPTERA. 



colour is pale green, clearly seen only on the ventral surface, 

 varied elsewhere with longitudinal stripes of yellow, grey, 

 and black, the grey often so closely dotted with black as to 

 become dusky. The entire back is occupied by a broad 

 black or dusky band, deepest at the middle and along each 

 margin ; on each flank is a series of stripes, consisting of a 

 median black or dusky band, on each side of which is a 

 greenish or yellow stripe of equal width, margined on either 

 hand with dingy-white that is set off by a mere line of dark ; 

 down the middle of the back is an interrupted narrow white 

 line, often clearly seen only near the head. (Oomstock.) 



May, June, probably July, on grasses and cereals ; but 

 there is no record of the occurrence of the larva in these 

 Islands. 



Pupa nearly an inch long, mahogany-coloured ; wing-cases 

 reaching to the last third of the body ; two spines, slightly 

 curved in, situated on the last segment. In a rough earthen 

 cocoon in the earth, or even a rude cell of dry grass just 

 below the surface. (Packard.) 



The moth doubtless hides in the daytime among grass and 

 herbage close to the ground. It flies at dusk, and comes to 

 sugar, and flowers such as those of the Scabious ; but in this 

 country is so very rare that little is known here of its habits. 



It seems to have been first noticed by Haworth in the 

 beginning of the present century, and was described by him, 

 under the present name, from a sjDecimen in the collection of 

 Mr. Francillon, of the capture of which no record is furnished, 

 but which was said to have been taken in Eugland. This 

 specimen afterwards passed into Mr. Haworth's collection, 

 and is, I think, still in existence in that of Dr. P. B. Mason, 

 at Burton-on-Trent. Haworth's description was copied by 

 Stephens twenty years later, but, by a slip of the pen, or the 

 intervention of the compositor, under the name of inqnmcta 

 (though the true name was used in the index), but with 

 reference only to the same specimen. From this time the 



