PHYCITID.-E—RHODOPH.^A. 15 



May and June, on the flowers of hawthorn and mountain- 

 ash ; residing in a sliglit open web or open series of threads 

 of silk among the slender flower-stalks. 



PrPA chestnut-brown ; in a tough cocoon attached to a 

 dead leaf or other object, on or in the earth. In this con- 

 dition about one mouth. 



The moth hides during the day in hawthorn bushes, and 

 if beaten out usually drops to the ground ; at dusk it flies 

 along the hedges of the same tree, and comes readily to the 

 light of a gas lamp ; also is partial to the taste of sugar 

 smeared on tree trunks to attract XoducK. Except where 

 the hawthorn is so cut back as not to be allowed to bloom, 

 this species seems to be found throughout the South of 

 England, and rather more commonly in the Eastern Coun- 

 ties ; also in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and rarely in 

 Staffordshire ; very locally in Yorkshire and even in South 

 Durham ; but apparently is absent from many of the Mid- 

 land and Northern Counties. In Wales Major Robertson 

 has found it in Glamorganshire, and it also occurs in Pem- 

 brokeshire. In Scotland my only record is in Kirkcud- 

 bright ; and it does not appear to have been found in 

 Ireland. Abroad its range is through Central Europe, 

 Italy, Dalmatia, Livonia, Finland, Norway, Southern Russia, 

 and Asia Minor. 



R. marmorea, Hav ; epelydella, ZclL, fitavil. Ccd. — 

 Expanse finch (16-19 mm.). — Fore wings rather broad, rich 

 purple-red ; first line erect, white ; in the middle is a paler 

 cloud from the costa. Hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, the basal joint elbowed, and 

 the second slightly twisted, pale brown ; palpi curved up, 

 slender, red-brown ; head and thorax purple-red ; abdomen 

 pale brown, each segment faintly edged with white. Fore 

 wings rather shoi-t, broad behind ; costa arched beyond the 

 middle ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin very gently 



