25b LEPIDOPTERA. 



The eggs in this species are sometimes placed curiously, 

 like those of Glisiocampa neustria, in a ring round the twig 

 of the food plant ; they are protected by the hair-scales from 

 the anal tuft of the female, which are placed endwise round 

 them, standing out in a loose hairy surface. 



The moth sits during the day, occasionally on a fence or 

 tree trunk, but much more commonly among dead leaves or 

 in the thick tangle of a hedge ; the male flies at dusk along 

 hedges and comes willingly to light, being very often to be 

 seen upon a gas lamp, where its appearance is quite unmis- 

 takable ; its wings are so closely drawn down that it is 

 quite as narrow in form as a Noctua, and its fore wings are 

 thus so crossed and overlapping that their tips show them- 

 selves in this unusual position. The female may sometimes 

 be found sitting on a twig in a hedge at night, but is much 

 protected by its small size and obscure appearance. Not 

 restricted to woods, but found quite as commonly in open 

 cultivated districts, in lanes and roads — even orchards and 

 gardens having rough hedges — apparently common in almost 

 all parts of England and Wales, yet less so in the more 

 Western and extreme Northern counties ; common also all 

 over Ireland. In Scotland found in Berwickshire, Rox- 

 burghshire, and doubtless over the whole of the more 

 Southern portion, and extending to Renfrew, Argyleshire, and 

 Perthshire. Beyond these I find no record. Abroad it seems 

 to have but a limited range, through Central Europe, and 

 Central and Northern Italy. 



Genus 39. PACHYCNEMIA. 



Antennge simple ; palpi prominently pointed ; head small, 

 smooth ; thorax and abdomen very slender, smooth ; fore 

 wings long and narrowly ovate; hind wings elongated, thin 

 in texture. 



We have only one species. 



