232 LEFIDOPTE/iA. 



The motb is veiy slu<ifgisb in the day tiinu, sitting in the 

 little bushes of burnet-rose on sea-sandhills, and almost 

 refusing to be disturbed, except by means of smoke ; but 

 creeping up after sunset and flitting quietly about the rose 

 plants. Almost confined to sea-sandhills, where also is the 

 special habitation of the burnet-rose ; still existing on the 

 Wallasey sandhills, where it was discovered — as British — in 

 the year 1848. Its only known inland locality is at Barnes 

 Common, Surrey, where it has still lingered till within the last 

 twenty years, or even more recently. Besides this and the 

 locality previously mentioned, in Cheshire, it has been taken 

 in East Cornwall, and at Beachy Head, Sussex ; in North 

 Wales in Carnarvonshire, and in Ireland on the Dublin and 

 Galwaj- coasts. These, I think, are our only known localities, 

 but I should not despair of obtaining it by patient search in 

 any part of our sandy coasts upon which the curious little 

 Mosa sj^inosissima is abundant. xVbroad it is found in Belgium, 

 Southern Germany, Lower Austria, Hungary, Dalmatia, 

 Bithynia, and in North America. 



8. P. variegana, Srhiji'. ; abildgaardana, Fivd. — 



Expanse f tc f inch. (15-18 mm.). Much smaller than 

 F. cristana or P. hastiana, but variable beyond any possibility 

 of brief diagnosis. 



Anteunte slender, dark brown ; palpi and head usually 

 black-brown ; thorax coloui-ed in accordance with the fore 

 wings ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wings of moderate 

 breadth ; costa well arched at the base, apex blunt ; hind 

 margin filled out ; little clusters of raised scales are placed 

 at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths the length of the 

 wing ; general colour brown, black-brown, tawny, red-brown, 

 or yellow-brown ; the basal area to the first line very com- 

 monly of some light colour contrasting with the remaining 

 dark portion of the wing — white, j'ellow-white, brownish- 

 white, or pale tawny — often containing a dark spot, blotch, 

 or triangular patch at the base of the dorsal margin ; area 



