TOR TRICID.-E—L OZO T.ENIA . 1 8 1 



Ou the wing at the end of -Jime and through -luly. 



LxiKVA apparently undescribed. It is stated — I think by 

 every author who has written upon the subject — to feed in 

 the spring upon privet (Ziz/ustruin vuhjare), but no details 

 seem to be given, and I have searched closelj- on privet, 

 where the moth occurs plentifully, without result. Yet 

 I am assured that it feeds in the young shoots, and spins up 

 between the leaves. 



Pupa glossy blackish-brown ; wing covers showing the 

 lines of the nervures; segments smooth but swollen into 

 smooth ridges or rounded hoops, cremaster rather long, 

 beak-like, hooked behind. Between the leaves where the 

 larva has fed ; its cocoon made with very little silk. 



This little species is one of our most familiar objects in 

 the summer; it abounds in the gardens even in the suburbs 

 of London, and is always ready on the smallest disturbance 

 to fly round in a vigorous buzzing manner before dashing 

 into another shelter, always among bushes or hedges, or 

 about ivy walls, and especially frequenting privet hedges. 

 Plentiful throughout the South and East of England iu lanes 

 and hedges as well as in gardens, and common throughout 

 the country to Yorkshire, Durham, and Lancashire at least. 

 Not so plentiful in Wales, but found in Glamorganshire. In 

 Scotland in the Clyde district, also extending to Aberdeen 

 and Moray, but rare in mountain regions. Widely distributed 

 in Ireland; recorded from Cork, Wicklow, Armagh, Antrim, 

 Derry, and Donegal. Abroad found throughout the greater 

 part of Southern and Western Europe, Russia, Asia Minor, 

 and Northern Africa. 



2. L. musculana, Huh. ; trifasciana, Haiv. — Expanse 

 I to J inch (l-j-18 mm.). — Fore wings ovate, ashy grey, with 

 a very broad umbreous central band, followed hy a similar 

 apical cloud. 



