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specimen was reared in ^'orkshlre, in the district so famous 

 for nielanic specimens of other species. 

 On the win^ from July to September. 



Lauva smoky lilack, more liliiish-o-reen on the back. ]ialer 

 between the segments; raised dots large, shining lilack; 

 head pale brown, blackish at the hinder edge ; plates black. 

 When younger pale silvery-grey, the back slightly darker, 

 and pale yellow beneath. It curls up in a curious manner 

 when disturbed. 



•Jnne ; on Ccntiui.rca ni/irx, Muntdgo lanrrulatd ; also many 

 other low-growing plants such as Chenopodium, Sonchus, 

 Ghrysaniliemii 11} , and Riinunntlua, rolling a leaf into a tube 

 open at each end so that it rapidly esca])es when disturbed. 



Tl'i'A black-bi'own, s))nn uj) in a neightjouring Itaf or 

 flower. 



The moth hides during the day among rough iierbage, or 

 sits upon a stone wall, but flies at night, and will come freely 

 to sugar spread to attract Noctute. Not known to occur 

 at all in the South : scarce in Cheshire and Lancashire ; 

 more frequent in Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Durham, and 

 Northumberland; and recorded by Wilkinson in North 

 Wales. In Scotland much more plentil'iil, in Mast Lothian, 

 ^[idlotliian, Fife, and elsewhere in the Kdiiibiirgh district; 

 I Vrthsliiie, Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire, Kirkcudbright, 

 Lanark, and the Clyde district generally ; Aberdeen. Kin- 

 cardine, and Moray. I find no record in Ireland, and it 

 seems to be nrd^nown outside Great Britain. 



4. S. conspersana, DoikjL; perterana, '//^ — Kxpanse 

 I to ^ inch (16-22 mm.). — Fore winos long and narrow ; 

 male soft slate-grey, female dusky white with black-brown 

 bands. 



Antenntu dai-k grey-bi'own ; ixdjji, head, and thorax slate- 

 grey ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wings much elongated, 

 costa nearly straight, apex rounded ; pale slate-grey with 



