292 LEFIDOPTERA. 



Pupa rather cylindrical, very little thickeuecl in the middle 

 and abdominal segments, but slowly tapering ; general colour 

 pale dull brown ; eyes darker brown, but not prominent ; 

 tongue and leg-cases all distinct but hardly raised, mottled 

 with umbreous ; antenna-cases very conspicuous, commencing 

 on the top of the head as a strongly raised ridge, and ex- 

 tending to the ends of the wing-covers, sculptured through- 

 out with cross-ridges which show the joints, shaded with 

 umbreous ; wing-covers abundantly sculptured wdth fine 

 cross-lines and strongly ribbed, each uervure being prominent 

 and shaded with dark brown ; from the back of the second 

 segment down the edges of the wing-covers is, on each side, 

 a row of round black spots enclosing the si)iracles. continued 

 with a parallel similar row on the abdominal segments ; 

 between is a black dorsal stripe, which with them extends to 

 the anal segment ; cremaster large, elongated, triangular, 

 tipped with a tuft of strong hooked bristles. In a rather 

 open, slight cocoon of tough silk between dead leaves or 

 rubbish on the ground. 



The winter is passed in this condition. 



The moth hides during the day among heather, or among 

 sw^eet-gale, if present, or may occasionally be beaten out of 

 hawtliorn or blackthorn bushes growing upon the heaths. 

 It flies of its own accord at dusk. It is excessively local, 

 and almost confined to extensive heaths and mosses and 

 heathy fens ; but is common on the heather-covered low 

 cliffs on the sea-coast of Hants and Dorset, in the open 

 portions of the New Forest, and elsewhere on the extensive 

 heaths of these two counties. Formerly it was plentiful in 

 one locality in \^"orcestershire. an open piece of common or 

 village-green. In the year 1872 four specimens were tal-cen 

 at Horning Fen. Xorfolk, and it has long been well known 

 in the mosses of Westmoreland and Cumberland. So far as 

 I know it has not been seen in Wales, and the only record 

 which we ])0sse5s for Scotland is that by Dr. Buchanan White 



