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rounded, light brown dusted with darker; colour lio^ht reddish- 

 drab or yellowish-drab ; dorsal line very slender, white, edged 

 on both sides with brown, sometimes obliterated by a more 

 distinct dark brown line, in others edged with black streaks 

 on each segment ; subdorsal line rather broad, greyish-brown, 

 dark brown or black, edged beneath by a white line ; above it 

 is a faint intermediate dusky-brown shade, below it another, 

 sometimes edged with white ; spiracular stripe broad, yellow- 

 brown, sometimes appearing as two lines ; spiracles black, 

 ringed with white ; of the raised dots, some of those of the 

 dorsal area are usually black, especially a pair on each 

 segment ; undersurface and legs yellowish-drab. 



April and May, but doubtless from the previous autumn, 

 on grasses, especially such as grow in woods ; feeding at 

 night. It may readily be found at this time by examining the 

 grasses growing at the edges of the ridings of woods, with 

 the assistance of a lantern, as it crawls up to feed on the 

 tops of the blades, and is not at all particular as to the species 

 of grass. By day it hides at their roots. 



Pupa rather short and thick, abdomen very tapering ; eye- 

 covers round and full, very glossy ; wing- and limb-covers 

 broad and smooth-looking, yet hardly shining, being covered 

 with unusually minute incised cross sculpture; dorsal and 

 abdominal segments very glossy, except at the base of each, 

 where is a band of rather distinct punctures ; whole surface 

 rich red-brown ; anal segment rather tumid, with a swollen 

 anal scar ; cremaster very short, hardly noticeable except for 

 a pair of short black spikes. In a brittle cocoon under the 

 surface of the earth. 



The moth hides, like its allies, by day among grass and 

 herbage, and flies at dusk, coming abundantly to sugar in 

 woods and wooded districts, also to honeydew on leaves of 

 trees and shrubs and on nettles, the blossoms of red valerian, 

 snowberry, rush, water sweet-grass, and other plants, and not 

 nnfrequently to light. 



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