3^4 LEPIDOPTERA. 



as is the ruotb it is very easily reared, and but for parasitic 

 foes would doubtless be plentiful. Yet it may be more 

 fre(|uent and more widely distributed than we are aware of, 

 being- certainly of somewhat secret habits. We know it to 

 occur in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey ; rather commonly in the 

 New Forest. Hants ; also in Dorset, in Worcestershire, and 

 rarely in Suffolk ; but a considerably wider range is probable. 

 In Wales I once took a specimen on a wooded heath in 

 Pembrokeshire, and Mr. Vivian has found it in Glamorgan- 

 shire. So far as I know this is the extent of its range 

 in these Islands, since Mr. W. Eeid's capture of several 

 specimens, in his own garden at Pitcaple, near Aberdeen, 

 seems to point to escape of larva> from captivity, rather than 



to the natural occurrence of this species in so unlikely a 

 spot. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe. Northern 

 Italy, Finland, and Southern Russia. 



G. E. pendularia, L. — Expanse 1 to 1 ^^ inch. All the 

 wings white, dusted with purple-grey ; each with two dotted 

 transverse lines, and between them a red-black ring, centred 

 with white. 



Antennte of the male pectinated with rather long slender 

 ciliated teeth to two-thirds of their length, thence sim])le. 

 whitish-brown; palpi small, curved, pale brown; tongue 

 rather long ; eyes bronzy-brown ; face convex, smooth, 

 orange-brown ; top of the head white ; thorax and abdomen 

 smooth brownish-white ; anal tufts narrow. Fore wings 

 i-ather elongated ; costa arched ; apex angulated ; hind mar- 

 gin faintly refuse, and then gently and evenly rounded ; 

 dorsal margin rather full and strongly ciliated ; white, faintly 

 dusted with purplish-grey, and sometimes a little with pur- 

 plish-red ; first line erect, a little curved, usually consisting 

 of dots on the nervures, reddish-black toward the costa. more 

 red below ; second line distinct, placed rather far back, and 

 formed of a curved oblique row of cloudy-black or red-black 



