20 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus 7. ASPIS. 



Antenna3 ciliated ; palpi thick, porrected ; thorax rather 

 stout ; fore wings broad with a long costal fold ; hind wings 

 smooth, broad and short. 



1, A. uddmanniana, Linn. — Expanse | to f inch (15- 

 19 mm.). Tore wings broad and squared, very pale purplish 

 brown with a large chocolate dorsal, upright blotch. 



Antennas notched, ciliated, -umbreous dotted with paler, 

 palpi, head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen glossy and 

 rather long, gre3^-brown. Fore wings broad, costa folded, 

 yet much arched ; apex squarely augulated, hind margin 

 straight and almost perpendicular ; pale grey-brown, with a 

 purplish flush, abundantly rippled with faint olive-brown 

 lines, in which the basal blotch is just visibly darker, and 

 rather large, its margin oblique but incomj)lete, throwing 

 off a cloud of the same colour near the costa ; on the dorsal 

 margin is a large, upright, somewhat trigonate, rich chocolate 

 spot, reaching to the middle of the wing ; across the apex 

 lies an olive-brown cloud, in which are several pairs of white 

 costal streaks ; cilia olive brown. Hind wings and their 

 cilia light smoky brown. Female similar, but without the 

 costal fold. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky brown with faint 

 whitish costal spots. Hind wings leaden white, latticed at 

 the apex with short brown lines. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva sluggish and fleshy, dirty red-brown ; head small, 

 shining black ; mouth brown ; dorsal plate black, edged at 

 the sides with brown, and in front divided by a slender dorsal 

 line; raised dots chestnut-brown; anal plate black, edged 

 with brown ; legs shining black. 



May and June on bramble, drawing together the leaves at 

 the tip of a shoot so as to form a solid ball, feeding inside 

 on the heart leaves, but not burrowing into the stem, forming 



