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Not very commoQ in the South of England, but apparently 

 to be found on all heaths here, and in the Eastern, Western, 

 and Midland districts, becoming more plentiful in the North, 

 and also in Wales and throughout Scotland. In Ireland re- 

 corded from Wicklow, Derry, Antrim, and Sligo, and probably 

 generally distributed. Abroad, found throughout Central 

 Europe and the Scandinavian Peninsula. 



7. P. permutana, Dup. ; permutatana, H.-H. — Ex- 

 panse i to I inch. (12-16 mm.j. Fore wings cream-colour 

 with a black dorsal spot, and a broad, curved, central, chest- 

 nut band, shaded behind. 



Antennae dark brown ; palpi and head purple-black ; 

 thorax pale purplish-drab, with a consjjicuous crest at the 

 back, tipped with purple-black ; abdomen pale brown, drab 

 behind. Fore wings moderately broad ; costa strongly 

 arched from the base, faintly hollowed before the apex, 

 which is a little expanded and bluntly angulated ; space 

 before the first line yellow-drab or cream-colour; in it is an 

 erect blue-black spot on the dorsal margin, on which is a 

 button of raised black scales ; first line curved, dark red, 

 bearing small black raised dots ; hinder area with cilia 

 purple-red divided by a paler band, and reticulated on the 

 margins and before the apex with deeper red lines. Hind 

 wings and their cilia smokj' white. Female smaller but similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale leaden-brown. Hind 

 wings yellowish-white. 



On the wing in August and September. 



Larva plump, slightly flattened; dull yellowish-drab; 

 head bright light brown ; dorsal plate yellow-brown ; and 

 plate light horn-colour. 



June to August on Bosa spinosissuiKi (burnet-rosejin i>puu- 

 together shoots. 



Plpa dull dark brown; in a white silken cocoon among 

 the leaves of the rose. 



