292 LEPIDOPTERA. 



The moth hides (.luring the day among thick herbage, and 

 especially in furze bushes growing among the golden-rud. 

 whence it may be beaten out, but is unwilling to fly, and 

 quickly scrambles back into its shelter, or else falls to the 

 ground and hides under any rubbish. At sunset it flies of 

 its own accord, but always seems rather scarce. It frequents 

 woody places and hills where its food-plant is common, even 

 sometimes quite to the sea-shore, yet is local, and seems only 

 to have been here recognised in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset, 

 Devon, Somerset, Herefordshire, and Cambridgeshire ; and in 

 Wales in Pembrokeshire. Abroad its range is known to 

 extend through Southern France, Germany, Austria, Livonia, 

 and South Sweden. 



8. E. gilvicomana, Zcll. — Expanse \ inch (12 mm.). 

 Head yellow ; fore wings pale yellow, with a broad, blackish, 

 central band, and a similar band along the hind margin. 



Antenna3 ciliated, dull brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 pale yellow ; abdomen black-brown. Fore wings slightly 

 trigonate ; but costa arched and apex blunt ; hind margin 

 rounded ; pale yellow, dappled with deeper yellow ; central 

 band broad, ill-defined, erect, black-brown dappled with deep 

 black ; apical and hind marginal area occupied by a large 

 similar ovate blotch ; cilia grey. Hind wings, with their 

 cilia, smoky black. Female similar. 



Undersides of all the wings dark smoke-colour. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva according to Heinemann upon Chcnopodhim — 

 apparently not described. Sorhagen says upon Laj^sana and 

 Prcnanthes ini.rpurec and P. imirolis. 



A considerable number of specimens of this pretty species 

 were taken in the year 1879 by the late Mr. F. 0. Standish. 

 it is supposed in Gloucestershire where he then resided, but 

 no indication was given by him of their locality, he merely 



