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The moth is particularly attached to large thick hedges 

 of ha\\'thoru or blackthorn, and sits on a leaf rather low down, 

 often indeed close to the ground on the hedge bank, but flies 

 out readily when disturbed, to return at once to the hedge. 

 Found also in orchards and gardens and the edges of woods, 

 but most fi-equently at road sides. Not usually a plentiful 

 species, yet fairly common in many places in the South, and, 

 except in some parts of the Midlands, to be found throughout 

 England, though scarce in Northumberland ; and in Wales 

 to Pembrokeshire. In Scotland recorded from the Edinburgh 

 district, Perthshire, Renfrew, Dumbarton, and Argyle ; and 

 in Ireland from Belfast, Derry, and Sligo. Abroad it is 

 widely distributed through Central Europe, Italy, Livonia, 

 Sweden, Norway, and Asia Minor. 



6. D. forskaleana, L. — Expanse, i to | inch (12-16 mm.). 

 Fore wings pale yellow reticulated with fine red-brown lines, 

 having a black dot or large blotch on the dorsal margin. 



Antennte and palpi yellow-drab ; head, thorax, and abdo- 

 men pale yellow. Fore wings rather short, broadly ovate ; 

 costa flatly arched, without fold ; apex very bluntly angu- 

 lated ; pale yellow i-eticulated all over with fine orange-red 

 lines crossing the verj^ similar nervures ; upon the middle of 

 the dorsal margin is a large oblique black-brown cloud which 

 leans toward the hind margin — but in some specimens this 

 cloud is merely represented by a black dot ; either before or 

 joining this cloud is often an angulated central line; extreme 

 hind margin black or red-black ; cilia yellow. Hind wings 

 yellowish -white ; cilia white. Female quite similar, or some- 

 times rather larger. 



Underside of the fore wings pale yellow, shading to yellow- 

 white toward the dorsal margin ; hind wings yellowish-white. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva semi-transparent, pale yellow, brighter at the 

 extremities ; head pale yellowish-green, immaculate and 



