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the plantK in the afteruoou sunshine. At other times they 

 sit on the same or neighbouring plants, but are easily 

 disturbed. Mr. H. F. Fryer jjoints out a remarkable provi- 

 sion for their security, in the circumstance that each moth 

 as it sits upon one of the spines of the teazle head pre- 

 cisely resembles the inner part of the spinous receptacle in 

 its brilliaut pink colour. Mr. C. W. Watts tells us in addi- 

 tion that it loves to settle on the fading leaves of Hypericum 

 which have reached the same bright colour. Formerlj* 

 common in the Hammersmith Marshes, which are now part 

 of London and covered with houses ; to be found and often 

 abundantly in all the extreme southern counties of England 

 except Cornwall, and in Essex, Herts, Cambs., Leicester- 

 shire, Derbyshire and Lancashire. Probably this is the full 

 extent of its range in these Islands, but there is a record, 

 which requires confirmation, at Sligo in Ireland. Abroad it 

 is spread over the greater part of Central Europe, the North 

 of Spain, the mountains of Italy, and of the Taurun, and in 

 Finland. 



18. E. degreyana, Mc LachJ. — Expanse J inch (12 mm.). 

 Head white or rosy-white ; fore wings crimson-grey ; greyish- 

 white at the base. 



Antenna3 simple, brown ; palpi pale brown ; head and 

 thorax white or rosy- white : abdomen dark brown ; anal 

 tuft yellovrish-white. Fore wings elongate and narrowly 

 trigonate ; basal portion ijreyish-white or rosj'-white ;; 

 central band slender, rather constricted, very oblique, 

 tawny or red-brown, attaining the subcostal nervure ; costa 

 and apical area brighter ro.?y ; cilia tawny. Hind wings 

 and their cilia white or smoky-white. Female similar, but 

 the hind wings and their cilia pale smoke-colour. 



Underside of the fore wings shining leaden-black, cilia 

 tawny. Hind wings white. 



On the wing in May and June, and in a second generation 

 in July and August, but it is not certainly ascertained 



