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brown ; in tbe ninth segment is a distinct redclisli-brown 

 internal dorsal blotch. When full-grown it becomes tinged 

 with pink. 



Jul}- and August, on cowslip {Priimda vcris) in the seed 

 capsules, eating the seeds, but leaving them when full-fed to 

 pupate in rotten sticks or hollow stems. Hoffmann says 

 upon Primuhi farinosa and other species of Frimula, and 

 Antirrliinam, in the calyx and capsule, which it spins together 

 into a mass. 



Sorhagen quotes me as giving Kartliccinm ossifra(jum and 

 Anafjallis tcnellu as food-plants, but this is erroneus. 



Pupa light brown, with darker brown wing covei'S. This 

 condition is assumed in the spring, after the larva has 

 hybernated in a rotten stick or dead stem. 



This species is widespread with us, yet exceedingly local, 

 and is moreover so puzzling in its habits that it is difficult to 

 believe that all the forms constitute only one species. In the 

 South it seems principally to frequent chalky districts and to 

 feed on the seeds of cowslip, and in its favourite localities 

 may be taken commonly flying at sunset and toward dusk in 

 the fields where that plant is abundant ; but, as already men- 

 tioned, it flies in Norfolk commonly on barren heaths where 

 no Primula, nor any nearly allied plant, except AncujaUis 

 foicUa, is to be found, and rests constantly among the 

 heather. Eecorded as occurring 'near Guildford, Surrey ; 

 also in Sussex, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Somerset, Glouces- 

 tershire, Wilts, Berks, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, 

 Herefordshire, Salop, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, 

 Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland, and Westmoreland 

 where it still frequents cowslip ; throughout Scotland to 

 Sutherlandshire and to the Orkneys and Shetlands, where it 

 ■ma)/ feed upon Primula farinosa, but where all observations 

 show it to frequent heather, especially in boggy places. 

 Apparently scattered over the northern half of Ireland ; but 

 in Wales only recorded at Sketty Park, Glamorganshire. 



