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dorsal lines broadly yellowish-brown, with slender delicate 

 oblique lines on each segment ; dorsal line a row of black dots, 

 one on each segment ; lateral space from the subdorsal lines to 

 the spiracles darker brown or umbreous, containing a row of 

 ovate, oblique, yellowish spots, each rather raised into a knob 

 by the wrinkling of the skin ; spiracles black ; undersurface, 

 legs, and prolegs pale rosy-brown, except the anal pro- 

 legs, which are dark brown. (Furnished for description by 

 Mr. A. C. Vine.) 



October to May on lettuce, chickweed, dandelion, plantain, 

 and other low-growing plants, and even grass. But Mr. 

 Woodforde has, by keeping a number of larva?, from the time 

 of hatching, in a hothouse, succeeded in feeding a portion up 

 in the autumn, the moths appearing from these in November 

 and early December. The remainder of the larvae resisted 

 this forcing, and remained over, to feed up in the spring. 



Pupa light brown, in a slight silken cocoon among moss 

 or dead leaves. Not more fully described. 



Not very much is known in this country of the habits of 

 this moth. Doubtless it hides among herbage in the day- 

 time ; at night it comes to sugar in its very restricted 

 localities on the South Coast, and occasionally to light and 

 to ivy-bloom. The first specimens noticed in this country 

 were taken at sugar near Shoreham, Sussex, in 1879, by 

 Mr. A. C. Vine ; and it has been found in small numbers in 

 subsequent years at the same place, at Deal, and elsewhere 

 in Kent and Sussex ; also in the Isle of Wight, where it was 

 discovered by Mr. Albert Hodges, and where in 1894 as many 

 as twenty specimens were secured. More recently two or 

 three have been obtained in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, 

 and a few at Truro, Cornwall ; but in South Devon its head- 

 quarters in these Islands have been discovered by Mr. F. C. 

 Woodforde. Here, in 189G and 1897, so many have been 

 captured that the species has ceased, for the present, to be 

 a rarity with us. Whether this great increase in numbers 



