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Larva nearly cj-lindrical, but the segments plump and 

 much wrinkled ; pale amber colour, raised dots minute, 

 black, with short white hairs ; head and dorsal plate large 

 and strong, deep black ; anal plate round, dark brown. 



September and October, and after hybernation, sometimes 

 till May or even June, in the seed-spike of Stacltys hetonicc, 

 eating out the seeds and inhabiting an empty calyx, remain- 

 ing therein, in an active condition, through the winter. Also 

 feeding occasionally in seed-heads of teazle [Dipsams 

 si/ivestriH) and Scahiosa succisa. Hofmann adds seeds of 

 Galco]}sis and Euphrasia odontitis in mountain districts. 



Pita light brown ; in the larval habitation. 



A widely distributed yet local species ; in deep woods and 

 marshy fields ; in the eastern counties common in the Fens 

 and on boggy heaths, and in the west abundant in some of 

 the damp pastures ; flying readily, if disturbed, in the sun- 

 shine, and more plentifully of its own accord at sunset. In 

 suitable places throughout England, commoulj' in very 

 restricted localities ; in Wales found in Pembrokeshire ; in 

 Scotland in Renfrew, Argyle, Arran, Perthshire, Sutherland- 

 shire ; and in the Outer Hebrides and the Orkneys ; in Ire- 

 land in Counties Cork and Galway. 



Abroad it is widely distributed in Central and Southern 

 Eui'ope, Turcomania, Syria, and Algeria. 



12. P. sellana, Huh. — Expanse | inch (15-17 mm.) 

 Fore wings ovate, with rounded costa : basal two- thirds black - 

 brown, almost divided by a faint paler band ; outer third 

 dull white with a large black-brown apical cloud. 



AntennEB dark brown ; palpi and head dull brown ; thorox 

 black-brown, mottled with dull white ; abdomen grey-orown. 

 Fore wings rather narrowly ovate ; costa gently arched ; 

 apex and hind margin rounded ; ground colonr dull white or 

 brownish white; basal blotch and central band both broad, 

 mottled, black-brown, united in the middle by a similar line 



