172 LEPIDOPTERA. 



surface orange-red. In a slight cocoon of silk and earth, 

 among dead grass-blades on the ground, or beneath the 

 surface. 



The moth hides, like its congeners, among herbage in 

 the daytime ; flying at dusk and showing itself particularly 

 partial to flowers such as those of the various species of 

 Lychnis and Silcne, Ecldum vulgare, snowberry, red valerian, 

 ragwort, and wood-sage. It also comes to sugar and occasion- 

 ally to light. It is common all over the southern half of 

 England, and found in more moderate numbers and more 

 local distribution, showing a preference for the coast, in the 

 northern half. Probably in all parts of Wales, since it is 

 fairly common in Pembrokeshire. Not scarce in Scotland, 

 extending to Moray and West Ross, though I find no record 

 of its occurrence in the extreme west or in the isles. In 

 Ireland it is pretty generally distributed. 



Abroad it ranges over Central Europe, the temperate 

 portions of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Dalmatia, the 

 Ural Mountain district, Armenia, and Asia Minor. 



14. L. albipuncta, Fah. — Expanse 1] inch. Fore wings 

 dull pale tawny ; first and second lines obscure, most visible 

 from their paler edging ; a distinct white dot lies at the end 

 of the discal cell. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Antennae of the male simple, very minutely ciliated, light 

 red; palpi short, thickly tufted, chocolate-red; head of the 

 same colour, thickly tufted with scales ; thorax pale tawny, 

 with small erect points suggesting a minute top crest ; fas- 

 cicles dirty white ; abdomen whitish-brown, thickly covered 

 with dusky-white hair-scales, among which, on the dorsal 

 region, are one or two minute tufts or crests; lateral and 

 anal tufts short and pale. Fore wings somewhat blunt ; 

 costa very faintly curved ; apex angulated ; hind margin 

 almost perpendicular and very slightly curved, not strongly 

 so even at the anal angle; dorsal margin nearly straight, 

 colour dull pale tawny -red dusted minutely with brown ; first 



