324 LEI'IDOPTERA. 



Scotland in Lanark, Dumbartonshire, Ayrshire and Renfrew ; 

 but I have no records from Wales or Ireland, or from the 

 English Midlands. 



Abroad it is common throughout Central and Northern 

 Europe, the South of France, Italy, Dalmatia, Bithynia, and 

 in North America in Labrador, California and Maine. 



6. L. straminea, Hav. ; tischerana, 7V. — Expanse 



I to \ inch (15-lS mm.). Fore wings trigonate ; dusky 

 yellow ; central band light brown, not broad, extending more 

 than halfway across the wing. 



Antennae bristly, pale brown ; jjalpi and head yellowish 

 white; thorax and abdomen pale 3"ellow-brown. Fore wings 

 somewhat triangular, the apex bluntly angulated, and hind 

 margin very oblique ; pale ochreous, dappled almost all over 

 with faint buff clouds; costa spotted with pale brown; on 

 the dorsal margin just before the middle is a nearly erect pale 

 brown stripe incomplete bat faced on the costa by a similar 

 cloud, and faintly dotted with darker brown ; beyond the 

 discal cell are, usually, one or more dark brown dots ; cilia 

 pale ochreous. Hind wings smoky white, paler toward the 

 base ; cilia white. Female similar, but the hind wings smokj' 

 brown with white cilia. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy lead-colour, with the 

 costa toward the apex, and the cilia pale yellow. Hind wings 

 white with a pale smoky tinge. 



On the wing from May to July, and as a second generation 

 in August and September. 



Larva very sluggish and plump, thickest in the middle, 

 rather shining ; very pale yellow, or almost white, with a 

 faintly grey internal dorsal vessel ; head deeply lobed at the 

 back, black ; dorsal plate brown ; narrowed at the sides and 

 divided into triangles ; anal plate light brown, legs black. 



July and second generation in September on Ccntaurca 

 nigra, inhabiting the base of the flower or seed-head, among 

 the pith, but feeding upon the seeds. When full fed it 



