268 LEPIDOPTF.RA. 



shining grey. Hind wings and their cilia smoky hrnwn. 

 Feraale similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoke-colour ; costa faintly 

 dotted with yellow. Hind wings smoky white. 



On the wing from -Tniie till the beginning of August. 



L.\RVA. Head highly polished, orange-ochreous ; dorsal 

 plate highly polished, varying in colour from black, though 

 orange-ochreous, to pale ochreous, margined with black on 

 each side and divided in the middle ; body smooth, shining, 

 semi-transparent, dirty pale smoke-grej' tinged with green ; 

 dorsal vessel visible as a conspicuous green line ; anal plate 

 varying from biackish-brown to dirty pale ochreous ; warts 

 and spiracles shining black, placed in polished smoky spots; 

 legs black, shining ; prologs semi-transparent, watery white. 

 (E. R. Bankes, condensed.) 



May ; on Scilla nutans (wild hyacinth, or bluebell), feeding 

 on the flowers and unripe seeds and inhabiting a loose silken 



eb among them. 



Pita, head, and thorax brownish-orange, wing-covers 

 darker ; abdominal segments still darker and furnished with 

 two parallel rows of raised spikes : cremaster formed of two 

 stout spikes with recurved tips; ventral surface pale 

 brownish-orange. (E. R. Bankes, condensed.) 



The moth is said to sit during the day in trees and bushes, 

 or occasionally on a tree trunk, in places where the common 

 bluebell is abundant ; but it is certainly very scarce in these 

 Islands ; yet it is recorded as occurring in all the English 

 counties south of London, and in Essex, Suffolk, Somerset, 

 Herefordshire, Leicestershire, and rather frequently in South 

 Yorkshire. Also found in Scotland at Rannoch, Perthshire, 

 ai'd in Argyleshire ; but so far as I know not in Wales or 

 Ireland. Abroad it occurs in Austria. Germany, Switzerland, 

 Styria, Livonia, and Finland. 



