298 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dirt that, as Mr. Hellins states, it is necessary to wash it 

 before its markings can be discriminated. 



Pupa red-brown ; not otherwise described. Subterranean. 



The moth hides during the day among herbage and dead 

 leaves close to the surface of the ground ; it flies at dusk, 

 and comes freely to sugar and to flowers such as those of the 

 yellow-rattle (Bhinantlius crista-galli). Plentiful in woods, 

 and found in more moderate numbers about hedgerows and 

 fields generally. Common throughout the South and East 

 of England, but local in Devon, and apparently scarce in 

 Cornwall. Widely distributed also over the Western counties 

 and the Midlands, becoming local in Cheshire, Lancashire 

 and Yorkshire ; still more so in Durham, and rare in Cum- 

 berland. Recorded in North Wales and in Glamorganshire ; 

 and I found it, though not plentifully, in Pembrokeshire. 

 Probably it occurs in suitable places throughout the Princi- 

 pality. The only locality in which it has been found in 

 Scotland seems to be in the extreme South-west, though 

 there is a doubtful record in Perthshire. In Ireland it is 

 widely distributed in the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, 

 Kerry, Westmeath, Cavan, Louth, King's County, Sligo, 

 Monaghan, Tyrone, Armagh and Antrim. The curious dark 

 variety hilinca is much more frequent in Ireland and Wales 

 than in more Southern and Eastern districts ; it has also been 

 taken in Cumberland. 



Abroad this species is found in Denmark and South 

 Sweden, throughout Central Europe, in Northern Italy, 

 Dalmatia, Northern and Eastern Turkey, and Southern and 

 Western Russia, 



Genus 60. DYSCHORISTA. 



Antennas simple, ciliated ; eyes naked, with lashes at the 

 back ; thorax having faint imitations of top and back crests ; 

 abdomen not very stout, not crested ; fore wings somewhat 



