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together the terminal leaves ; often found on stunted plants 

 upon hedge-banks. 



Pupa blackish brown, in a cocoon of white silk between 

 leaves. 



The moth usually hides during the day in stunted sallow 

 bushes, from which it is easily beaten out. Its natural flight 

 is at dusk, when it keeps about the same bushes on hedges 

 and hedge banks, and often sits on their leaves ; later at 

 night it will come to light, or to the sugar spread to attract 

 noctufe. Sometimes found also among osiers in damp places ; 

 but not an abundant species ; found in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, 

 Hants, Dorset, Middlesex, Herts, Somerset, Gloucestershire, 

 Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, 

 Cambs, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, Durham, and 

 Northumberland. In Wales in Pembrokeshire and Glamor- 

 ganshire ; but I have no record for Scotland. In Ireland it 

 has been taken by Canon Cruttwell in Connemara. Abroad 

 it is found throughout Central Europe, and in Sweden and 

 Finland. 



2. B. hartmanniana, L. ; scriptana, Rub. — Expanse 

 I to I inch (16-19 mm.). Eoi'e wings dull white, dusted 

 with black, and clouded with grey ; with a large black-brown 

 costal blotch. 



AntenniB dark brown ; palpi, head, and thorax grey-brown ; 

 thoracic crest double, black-brown ; abdomen pale grey- 

 brown. Fore wings short and broad ; costa arched, apex 

 blunt, bind margin perpendicular very little curved ; greyish 

 white or brownish white much dappled with pale grey cloud- 

 ing ; edge of the basal blotch indicated by one — or two- — 

 faint beaked spots surrounded by black-brown clouding ; 

 central band rather oblique, broad, divided in the middle, 

 costal portion a distinct black-brown blotch, dorsal portion 

 more cloudy ; apex of the wing crossed by a row of black 

 dots and some faint cloudy lines ; cilia white dappled with 



