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Maj- and a second generation ia August and September, 

 on Vihurnuui lantana (mealy guelder-rose) and V. 02nilus, 

 drawing together the leaves and eating the parenchyma and 

 under surface, but scraping away the downy hairs. 



Pupa furnished with two oblique rows of short tufts of 

 bristles on each hinder abdominal segment. (Hofmann.) 

 Spun up among leaves and gnawed refuse of the larval 

 habitation. Often not emerging till November. 



The moth hides during the day among bushes, especially 

 among Viburnum, and if beaten out flies very sharph^ into 

 some other hiding place. It is more active in the spring than 

 before hybernation, and in my experience the summer brood 

 is less plentiful than the other. Most frequent in woods in 

 chalky localities, or in those places in which there is a large 

 calcarious element in the soil. Found in all the Southern 

 Counties of England, in Norfolk, the Western Counties, and 

 Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland ; also in North 

 Wales ; in Scotland in Roxburghshire, Renfrew, Dumbarton, 

 Argyle, and Moray : and said by Wilkinson to occur at 

 Belfast, in Ireland. Abroad it is found in Sweden and 

 Lapland, the greater portion of Central and Southern 

 Europe, including Portugal ; and in North America in New 

 York State, Massachussetts, and Pennsylvania. 



G. P. mixtana, jy/Vi.— Expanse \ to § inch (12-lG mm.). 

 Fore wings narrow, blunt, texture coarse, red-brown, with 

 black and white mottling. 



Antennae pnrple-red ; palpi, head, and thorax rough, 

 similar ; shoulder lappets raised ; abdomen black-brown, with 

 a yellow anal tuft. Fore wings rather narrow ; costa scarcely 

 arched, more nearly straight ; apex very bluntly angulated ; 

 purple-brown, purple-red or red-brown, shaded or dusted 

 with red, or with white ; also having faintly irregular indi- 

 cations of markings, which seem to represent the usual basal 

 and central bands or parts thereof ; sometimes with a dark 



