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in its head and falls to the ground. It passes the winter 

 among the dead stalks of its food-plant. 



Pupa dark brown, abdomen slender. Apparently not 

 more fully described. In a cocoon of silk and earth upon 

 the ground, or of silk among dead leaves of the vetch on 

 the ground, or even among the living leaves of the plant 

 higher up. 



The moth frequents damp open woods and moist meadows 

 near to woods, hiding during the day among the herbage 

 close to the ground, from which it is readily disturbed and 

 induced to fly, but settles down again into the herbage at 

 a short distance. At dusk it flies of its own accord, but, 

 so far as I know, is totally insensible to the attractions 

 of sugar, flowers, or light ; indeed, very little seems to have 

 been observed of its habits at night. Rather a local species : 

 found in such places as already stated in Kent, Sussex, 

 vSurrey, Hants, with the Isle of Wight, Dorset and Devon ; 

 more commonly in Somerset and Berks ; also in Cambridge- 

 shire, Huntingdonshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hereford- 

 shire, and even very locally in Yorkshire. Moreover, its 

 larva was found last year, by Mr. Percy Richards, on the 

 verge of the London suburbs, at Brockley. In Wales it 

 occurs near Swansea, but I know of no record in Scotland 

 or Ireland. Abroad its range is through Central Europe, 

 Southern Sweden, Livonia, and Tartary. 



2. T. craccse, Fab. — Expanse If inch. Top of the head 

 and the collar deep black, fore wings ashy-grey or ashy- 

 brown, browner at the apex ; reniform stigma edged with 

 black, four costal spots chocolate-brown or black ; hind wings 

 smoky-white with a darker hind-marginal band. 



Antennee of the male simple, cylindrical, finely ciliated, grey- 

 brown ; palpi broadly tufted, black dusted with white ; eyes 

 prominent, naked; face brown, with a white angulated 

 bar across it between the bases of the antennae, above this 



