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lu this form the hind wings of the female are sometimes 

 white, faintly bordered with brown. This dark race is known 

 as wAv'w^ij ferriifjinm, an intermediate form is known as var. 

 suhfasciaim. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva green, with similar raised dots on a visible dark 

 internal dorsal vessel ; head chestnut-brown ; dorsal plate 

 similar. 



From August to May or even June, between drawn- 

 together leaves of birch, alder, buckthorn, service, ash, 

 hazel, and mountain ash, in a tubular passage open at both 

 ends ; or after hybernating, in the drawn-together shoots. 



Pupa dull brown, abdomen paler. In the larval habi- 

 tation. 



The moth is common in woods throughout the United 

 Kingdom, flying freely high up about the trees between sun- 

 set and dusk, and is one of those species which, when the 

 wings are closed and arched, so curiously simulate the fallen 

 capsule of a leaf-bud lying loosely upon a leaf. It is per- 

 haps more abundant in Scotland, in suitable localities, even 

 than in the South, but not found in any numbers away from 

 woods. In Ireland it seems only to have been noticed in 

 the county Derry. The dark vai'iety is always attached to 

 hills, and their woody glens more especially, and sometimes 

 is almost absent even from far northern localities. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central and Northern 

 Europe, including Norway, and in Siberia ; also in North 

 America, in Maine, New York State, Illinois, Wisconsin, 

 and Nova Scotia. 



2. L.politana, ir«K\; lepidana//.,S'.; sylvana, Tr.Gn. 

 — Expanse h to | inch (12-16 mm.). Eore wings dark red- 

 brown, with two very oblique narrow silvery-grey bands. 



AnLenna3 ciliated, black-brown ; palpi dark brown ; head 

 black-brown, dotted with white ; thorax red-brown ; abdo- 



