344 LEPIDOPTERA. 



ticularly along hedges, atid when on the wing has an unex- 

 pectedly pale appearance. Rather common in the southern 

 counties from Kent to Dorset ; in the eastern to Norfolk ; 

 and in the west in Somerset, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, 

 and Worcestershire ; also found in Berks, Herts, Oxfordshire, 

 and Leicestershire, and locally in Yorkshire and South 

 Durham ; but I have no knowledge of its presence in any 

 other portion of the United Kingdom. Abroad it is common 

 in most parts of Central and Southern Europe, and in 

 Northern Africa. 



2. P. sodaliana, Eav:. ; amandana, E.B. — Expanse 

 § inch (15-16 mm.). Head thickly tufted, white ; fore wings 

 snow-white dotted with black ; with a broken black and 

 tawny central band and an apical chocolate spot. 



Antennae brown ; palpi, head, and thorax white, and the 

 head excessively tufted ; abdomen dark grey, each segment 

 with a white edging. Fore wings not long, moderately 

 broad ; costa having at the base a faint imitation of a fold, 

 apex and hind margin rounded ; bright white, base and 

 costa dotted with black ; central band a broad ill-defined 

 black and tawny dorsal blotch, faced by a similar costal spot; 

 beyond it a rich chocolate apical spot, below it a perpen- 

 dicular black streak, some grey and chocolate streaks of 

 raised scales, and some black dots in a large grey and buff 

 cloud like an ocellus ; cilia pale brown clouded with black. 

 Hind wings white dajjpled with faint cloudy grey lines. 

 Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-white, with square 

 smoky-black costal dots, and similar clouds beyond the 

 middle. Hind wings dusky white dappled with grey lines. 



On the wing in May, June, and Julj*. 



Larva moderately active, short, plump, transversely 

 wrinkled ; light glossy green with the whole dorsal region 

 mottled with pale purple, somewhat brighter behind ; raised 

 dots whitish green with white hairs ; head light brown ; 



