SERICQRID.-E—SPILONOTA. 13 



1. S. tripunctana, Schiff. — Expanse f inch (18-19 mm.). 

 Fore wings elongate, broad behind, white, with the base, 

 apex, and intermediate clouds smoky-black. 



Antennae notched, ciliated, black-brown ; palpi light 

 yellow ; head brown ; thorax black-brown ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, with a yellow anal tuft. Fore wings elongate, costa 

 deeply folded from the base to the middle, beyond a little 

 arched ; apex bluntly rounded, hind margin straight ; white; 

 basal blotch large, smoky black, its outer margin oblique 

 and much produced and clouded along the costa ; toward 

 the anal angle is a triangular smoky black dorsal spot ; and 

 the hind marginal region is much clouded with the same 

 colour ; intermediate white space dotted with one or more 

 similar clouds ; cilia smoky black. Hind wings and their 

 cilia smoky white. Female similar, but without folded 

 costa. 



Larva dirty brown-yellow with blackish longitudinal 

 stripes ; head and dorsal plate black-brown. 



May and June on rose, in the young shoots, or between 

 two united leaves ; also on bramble. Feeding indifferently 

 on wild roses, and on those cultivated in gardens. 



Pupa blackish green, the segments ringed with black ; in 

 the larval habitation. 



The moth hides during the day in rose bushes, and if 

 disturbed flies briskly about them for some little time before 

 settling again. It is not often in any abundance in any one 

 place, but may be found about almost every rose-bush in any 

 hedge, and probably every bed of roses in the gardens, 

 occurring even in the suburbs of London, and apparently 

 everywhere in the United Kingdom except the extreme 

 north of Scotland, and the Isles — though it has been noticed 

 in the Isle of Skye, Abroad it is common all over the 

 temperate regions of Europe, also in Asia Minor and the 

 Trans-Caspian region. 



