TOR TR/CID.-E—LEP TOGRAMMA. 1 1 7 



Las come under my notice is of a grey-white, with the usual 

 abundant black dotting, but no trace whatever of green. It 

 was taken by a lady at Bungay, Suffolk. 



On the wing from July to October and after hybernation 

 in April and May. 



Larva and Pipa apparently unknown ; but there can be 

 little doubt that the former feeds on oak, though Kaltenbach 

 says '• in May and June on birch." 



The moth sits by day on the trunks of trees. In the 

 summer and autumn it loves to squeeze itself closely to the 

 surface of an oak trunk or apple trunk among the lichens, 

 where it is so closely concealed by its resemblance to them 

 that it can only be discovered by blowing sharply with the 

 breath upon the trunk. To see the wings lift up from the 

 surface where apparently there svas nothing living is a very 

 curious sight. But in the spring it seems to fly more about 

 and may sometime.'? be seen sittiug upon any bare tree by the 

 roadside. Eather common in the New Forest and other 

 large woods in the South of England, and apparently to be 

 found in woods throughout England and Wales except a few 

 of the Midland counties ; very rare in the Northern counties. 

 In Scotland found occasionally in the Edinburgh district, 

 Perthshire. Roxburghshire and the Clyde valley ; but in Ire- 

 land it seems to be confined to the counties of Cork and Kerry. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe, Italy, 

 Sardinia, Sweden, Norway, Asia Llinor and Northern Asia. 



2. L.boscaiia,/'"/;. ; scabrana, ,%/79/i.; parisiana, G/i. 



— Expanse g to f inch (14-18 mm.). Fore wings white with 

 three brown spots in a flat triangle near the costa ; second 

 brood grey ; hind wings smoky pale brown. 



Antennf?" simple, grey ; palpi, head and thorax white 

 abdomen yellow-brown. Fore wings moderately broad 

 costa not folded but the basal portion strongly arched 

 and roughened to the middle with projecting scales 



