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the Clyde district, and even in Orkney ; in Ireland recorded 

 from Cork, Galway, and Belfast. Abroad it is widely dis- 

 tributed throughout Central and Southern Europe, Sweden, 

 Asia Minor, and the region of the Caucasus. 



2. D. bergmanniana, L. — Expanse \ inch (12-14 mm.). 

 Fore wings bright j-ellow, edged and marbled with rust-red ; 

 hind wings smoky brown. 



Antennaj yellow-brown ; palpi orange-yellow, paler within ; 

 head and thorax light bright yellow ; abdomen slender, 

 blackish-brown. Fore wings somewhat ovate, yet bluntly 

 and squarely angulated behind ; costa moderately arched, 

 not folded ; colour rich yellow, marbled with orange or rust- 

 red, especially so at the margins ; basal, first and second 

 lines shining silvery -gi-ey, somewhat equidistant, most dis- 

 tinct upon the costa, each edged with red-brown, and the 

 last rather oblique ; in the dark reddish clouding of the 

 hind margin is a series of cloudy silvery-grey dots ; cilia 

 yellow. Hind wings and their cilia dark smoky brown. 

 Female quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky purple-brown, shaded 

 with yellow at the margins. Hind wings smoky white. 



On the wing at the end of June and in July. 



Larva cylindrical, when young pale greenish-grey, paler 

 beneath, sometimes even bluish when verj' young ; head and 

 both plates black and shining. When older it becomes yellow, 

 sometimes very bright yellow, and the anal plate yellow with 

 a brown spot. May and June on rose, especially on cultivated 

 roses in gardens ; when young folding a leaflet neatly in the 

 middle and living within, later in the shoots, drawing the 

 leaves together or even twisting them over like a hood. 

 This especially is seen in small roses such as Bosaspinosissima. 



Pupa small, very compact, brownish-yellow or pale brown. 

 Spun up among the twisted rose leaves, or in a fold in the 

 larval habitation. 



