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are almost as small as the next species, but retain the sharp- 

 ness of markings and brightness of colour. 



On the wing in May and June in one generation onlj'. 



Lakva apparently undescribed. Herr Stange states that it 

 feeds in the root-stock of Scabiosa ochroleuca from the autumn 

 till the spring. AVith us there is little doubt that Scahio>>a 

 succisa is the substitute food. 



The moth especially frequents the damper portions of open 

 woods in which the common '• Devil's-bit scabious " (>S'rai/o.srt 

 succisa) grows commonly ; hiding among rushes and long 

 grass as well as among the scabious, and sometimes follows 

 that plant on to open ground — even sea-cliffs — but does not 

 always occur in the rough moist meadows and pastures 

 in which the scabious abounds. Consequently it is only 

 recently that its connection with that plant has been noticed. 

 It hides among and near it in the daytime, and may be dis- 

 turbed by the footstep in sunshine, but flies more freely 

 towards sunset. Rather a local species, but to be found in 

 suitable places, in the southern counties from Kent to 

 Dorset, in the eastern to Norfolk, in the western to West- 

 moreland ; also in Wilts, Cambs, Herts, and in Yorkshire, and 

 Mr. Robson records it not uncommonly in Durham and 

 Northumberland ; in Wales in Glamorganshire and Pem- 

 brokeshire ; apparently throughout Scotland to the Orkneys ; 

 and in Ireland in most of the coast counties. Abroad it 

 is found throughout Central and Northern Europe except the 

 Polar regions, in Spain, Northern Italy, Dalmatla, Roumania, 

 Asia Minor, and Armenia. 



5. A. subbaumanuiana, Wilk. — Expanse i to ■; inch 

 (10-16 mm.). Fore w'ings blunt, reddish-yellow, with jagged 

 and broken, ill-defined, chocolate-brown transverse markings. 



Antennse ciliated, black-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 densely tufted with scales, pale chocolate ; abdomen blackish 

 brown. Fore wings rather short, not broad ; costa nearly 



