40 LEPWOPTERA. 



raised on the sixth to tenth segments, especially on the 

 ninth, where they are united and form a small transverse pro- 

 tuberance ; head small and rounded, pale grey, with purple 

 markings on each side of the face ; body dull purple, paler 

 on the back, blotched, marbled, and dusted with dusky- 

 white, reddish-brown, and grey; dorsal stripe pale grey, 

 purplish in the middle, often obliterated on the sixth to the 

 ninth segment ; the protuberance upon the latter dull purple ; 

 a pale lateral stripe from the head ends in a whitish blotch 

 on the fifth segment, but reappears on the ninth, and is con- 

 tinued to the anal extremity ; subdorsal lines faintly in- 

 dicated by series of small pale blotches ; undersurface much 

 paler than the back and sides, whitish-grey with a purplish 

 tinge, and with numerous longitudinal, grey, threadlike 

 lines ; ventral spots black and distinct. (C. Fenn.) 



August to May, on heather, heath, broom, and the blossoms 

 of furze, hybernating when still small. 



Pupa shining, red-brown. Not further described. In a 

 slight cocoon among debris on the ground. 



The moth frequents heaths, hiding in the daytime among 

 the heather, from which it may be disturbed occasionally by 

 beating, yet is not very willing to fly, and often slips down 

 among the stems. Its natural flight is at early dusk, w^hen 

 it is easily secured. Found apparently on all large heath- 

 tracts in the South of England, and in smaller numbers or 

 more locally in moors or mosses throughout the country to 

 Westmoreland and Cumberland, though scarce in the 

 Eastern Counties, and hardly noticed on that side of the 

 country to the north of Norfolk. I find no record in Wales, 

 where it surely must occur; but in Scotland it is found in 

 Koxburghshire and Clydesdale, in Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, 

 and Ross-shire. In Ireland it has been found in Kerry, 

 Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Westmeath, and Armagh, and is doubt- 

 less widely distributed on boggy heaths. Abroad it is com- 

 mon in Central Europe, the northern half of Italy, Livonia, 



