2156 LEPIDOPTERA. 



white dorsal line, and just below it a row of white dots ; on 

 each side of the dorsal region is an angular marking, the 

 point of the angle on the side being outlined in black dusting 

 or dots ; spiracles and head black. It lives in the Bummer 

 in meadows on low-growing plants, hiding by day under- 

 neath the leaves of its food-plant. (Dr. Hofmann.) 



Pupa short, red-brown. The larva hybemates in an 

 earthen cocoon, in which it assumes the pupa state. 

 (Hofmann.) 



Very little is known of the habits of this species, and it 

 may be from this circumstance that it is, and seems always 

 to have been, very rare, not only here but abroad. The first 

 specimen known to have been obtained in this country was 

 captured in a moist place at Stockton-in-the-Forest, about 

 four miles from York, by a young man in the employment 

 of Mr. T. H. Allis. He seems to have met with other 

 examples, but, not knowing the species, had retained this 

 one specimen only — unset — until Mr. Allis's return from a 

 journey, when it was placed in his collection, and doubtless 

 is still in existence in the York Museum. Although Mr. 

 Allis most emphatically affirmed, and indeed proved, the 

 capture of the specimen, he seems never to have recorded 

 the year in which it took place ; but this was certainly before 

 1855. So far as can be ascertained, the next specimen 

 taken was recorded by Mr. H. Jenner-Fust, who says that 

 it was obtained in Quy Fen, Cambs, in May 1862, by Mr. 

 Schofield ; and that it was disturbed from among some half- 

 dried grass which had been cut a day or two, and when 

 disturbed — which was in the daytime — flew pretty quickly. 

 Another specimen, which may possibly have been antecedent 

 to this, or even to the Yorkshire specimen, was taken by 

 the late Richard Weaver, but where is not known. It had 

 remained unset in the collection of the Rev. Henry Burney 

 for many years before it was recognised as a female of the 

 present species. In June 1869 I had the peculiar pleasure 



