I04 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dorsal and abdominal segments light brown, abundantly- 

 covered with minute pitting, which rather dulls the gloss, 

 except at the hinder margin of each segment, where is a 

 smooth, shining, darker bi'own band ; cremaster short, thick, 

 rounded, tipped with a bunch of fine hooked bristles. In a 

 soft, slight, silken network cocoon, in a crevice in moss or 

 under a decayed leaf. 



In this condition through the winter. 



In sunny weather the moth flits gently about in the day- 

 time among its food-plants — in my own experience prin- 

 cipally among wliortleberry — in open woods, settling upon 

 the tops of the plants, with its wings three-fourths erect and 

 ready at the smallest disturbance to flit in the same lively 

 manner away, but if the sun becomes obscured, will creep 

 under a leaf for shelter. So far as I know there is no reason 

 to suppose that it flies at all at night. Its habits vary, since 

 in one place it will frequent, and settle upon, whortleberry 

 only, in another, on rose, or dogwood, or bramble, its larvae 

 appearing to be similarly fastidious. Very local and appa- 

 rently confined to woods, but usually common where it occurs 

 — in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Berks and Essex — very 

 rare in Wilts, extremely local in Devon, Somerset, Gloucester- 

 shire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Salop, confined to one 

 locality in Derbyshire, and extremely local in South York- 

 shire. In Wales it is only recorded from Sketty Park, near 

 Swansea ; and I find no records for Scotland or Ireland. 

 Abroad it has an extensive range — Central Europe, Northern 

 Italy, Livonia, Finland, Armenia, Tartary, the Corea, the 

 mountainous regions of Central Asia, China, and Japan — 

 where it is quite typical and very abundnnt ! 



2. E. apiciaria, ;SV7m;^:— Expanse 1 to \\ inch. Fore 

 wings acuminate, hind wings with a hollow in the hind 

 margin ; colour orange-yellow, all the wings bordered with a 

 broad pale purple band which runs to a point at the apex of 

 the fore wings. 



