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wing-covers, but anal extremit}- and cremaster extremely 

 glossy, the former thickened, the latter blackened, short and 

 conical, provided with a pair of hooked spines and a cluster 

 of minute curled bristles. In a tough silken cocoon under 

 moss or dead leaves, or just beneath the soil, often at the foot 

 of a tree. 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth usually sits, during the day, near the ground, on 

 the trunk of a tree, or a fence, or especially among low bushes 

 and herbage, looking quite like a withered leaf ; if old fir- 

 trees are at hand it will ensconce itself under one of the pro- 

 jecting pieces of rough bark, sitting so that only the ends of 

 its wings are visible, and these bear so accurate a resemblance 

 to the flakes of loose bark which fall from these trees that it 

 is almost perfectly protected. As it sits the wings are 

 deflected, and not raised as in some of the allied species. 

 It is very sluggish in the daytime, and can then scarcely be 

 induced to fly, but may be most easily picked up in the 

 fingers, and handled without being greatly disturbed. Mode- 

 rately common throughout England, perhaps least so in the 

 Eastern Counties, but preferring wooded districts ; neverthe- 

 less, it may often be found in hedge-rows, or on isolated trees, 

 even in gardens. It is tolerably frequent throughout Wales 

 and Ireland. Fairly common also in kScotland, plentiful in 

 Perthshire and some other wooded districts, extending to 

 Moray and Sutherlandshire, and to the Hebrides, but appa- 

 rently absent from the Orkneys and Shetland Isles. Abroad 

 it is found throughout Central Europe and the temperate 

 portions of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Southern Kussia, 

 Eastern Siberia, and the mountainous regions of Central 

 Asia. 



Genus 20. ENNOMOS. 



Antenna? of the male pectinated ; palpi short, shaggy, 

 head rough ; thorax robust and covered with fluffy soft raised 



