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tbat it feeds on bilberry and Oiiohriicliia sutiva ; and Goeze 

 adds Convallaria. 



Pita said to lie, in a whitish cocoon, on the ground. 



A creature of rather curious shy habits, if possible, when 

 noticed, creeping away to hide itself among grass and 

 herbage, and only flying with freedom when the sunshine 

 is warm. Sometimes, however, it is tempted out to fly freely 

 in the afternoon, but instantly disappears if the weather 

 becomes cloudy, and cannot well be trodden up or beaten 

 out. A local species with us and usually confined to damp 

 grassy places in woods, rocky fields, marshes, or fens, but 

 also not rare on hillsides among Vaccinium ; or further 

 north in hill-mosses, flying over Aira caspitosa and Erio- 

 pliorum. Taken very locally in Sussex, Surrey, Hants, 

 Dorset, Gloucestershire; the fens of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, 

 and Norfolk ; the Black Mountain, Herefordshire ; Wor- 

 cestershire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, 

 and Westmoreland ; also in Wales to Pembrokeshire. In 

 Scotland very widely distributed and found even in Orkney 

 and Shetland. In Ireland it is recorded from Antrim, 

 Fermanagh, Galway, and Kerry. Abroad it is widely dis- 

 tributed in Central and Northern Europe the North of 

 Italy, Corsica and Armenia. 



Genus 12. AMPHYSA. 



Antennaj of the male shortly pectinated ; palpi drooping, 

 thickened or clubbed ; fore wings not folded, the apex rather 

 pointed; hind wings ridged beneath. 



This genus is conspicuous on account of the pectination of 

 the antennaj of the males. 



We have only two species : 

 A. Fore wings orange-yellow banded with crimson. 



A. gcrningana. 

 A'-. Fore wings ashy-white, with oblique black-brown bands. 



A. prodromcuia. 



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