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grey silk, attached to the end of the web iu which the larva 

 had lived, and to the stem and leaves of its food, the outside 

 covered with leaf-gnawinofs and frass. (W. Buckler.) 



The moth hides in thick bushes of blackthorn (sloe), 

 either in hedges or on open rough ground, and may some- 

 times be obtained by beating these bushes late in the day. 

 At dusk it flies freely about them, and after dark will come 

 to a light, sometimes to a roadside gas-lamp. Usually not a 

 very common species and rather local, but found in Kent, 

 Sussex, Surrey, Hants — especially in the New Forest — 

 Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Herts, Essex, 

 Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and also in North Lan- 

 cashii'e and Westmoreland. In Wales, I found it in 

 Pembrokeshire, and it has been met with by Mr. Porritt at 

 Great Orme's Head in Carnarvonshire ; but it does not seem 

 to have been noticed in Scotland or Ireland. Abroad it is 

 found throughout Central Europe, except Holland ; also in 

 Central Italy and Dalmatia. 



3. R. suavella, Zk. — Expanse \ to \ inch (18-23 mm.) 

 — Fore wings broadly elongate ; purple-brown, with large 

 ashy-grey shades from the costa ; first line very oblique, 

 edged by a black triangular cloud on the costa. Hind wings 

 glossy, pale smoky-brown. 



AntenniB of the male simple, the second joint rather 

 twiisted, black-brown, faintly barred at the back with white ; 

 palpi slender, curved up, pale chocolate ; head greyish-drab ; 

 thorax puq:)le-brown ; abdomen glistening grey-brown with 

 a whitish edging to each segment. Fore wings elongated 

 but rather broad and blunt ; costa very flatly arched ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin gently rounded, hardlj^ 

 oblique ; very shining, purplish-grey, dusted with white and 

 brown ; basal area pale purple-red, dusted toward the costa 

 with white; first line decidedly oblique, rather far from the 

 base, white, edged outwardly by a large brown and grey- 



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