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The moth hides during the day in bushes and trees, usually 

 in the more open parts of woods, and is readily beaten out, 

 but not very active in escaping. At dusk it flies of its own 

 accord, and is apparently willing to move about throughout 

 the night, indeed it will come to the sugar placed on trees to 

 attract Noducc at almost any hour if the weather is warm 

 and windy. Frequent in all woods in the South of England, 

 and occasionally abundant ; also in those of the Eastern and 

 Western counties, and extending northwards to Yorkshire, 

 Lancashire, Northumberland, and Durham, but I find no 

 record in Wales. In Scotland found in Roxburghshire, Fife, 

 Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, and the Clyde district ; common 

 in the South of Ireland, and taken near Enniskillen. 



Abroad it is common in Central Europe and in Italy, 

 Dalmatia, and the Scandinavian Peninsula. 



2. P. ribeana, Hb. — Expanse f to ^ inch (18-22 m.m.). 

 Very variable ; fore wings yellow-drab to dull umbreous ; 

 central band darker, expanded in the middle ; hind wings 

 dark smoky-brown. 



Antenna of the male simple, olive-brown ; palpi, head, and 

 thorax light brown or yellow-brown ; abdomen dusky-brown. 

 Fore wings broad ; costa strongly arched at the base, not 

 folded, the margin curved up for half its length ; apex 

 squared ; colour 3-ellow-drab or yellow-brown, sometimes 

 with an olive tint ; the markings margined with red-brown 

 or deep brown, often filled up wholly, or in part, with some 

 shade of brown or smoky brown ; basal blotch large, its 

 margin erect or faintly sinuous ; central band oblique, 

 moderately broad, most so in the middle, and thinning toward 

 the costa ; beyond it is a partly round costal spot, sometimes 

 conspicuous; the broad area below this is either plain or 

 reticulated with dark brown ; cilia dark brown. Hind wings 

 silky smokj' brown, with similar cilia. Female larger, very 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull smokv brown with the 



