52 LEPIDOPTERA. 



chocolate bands, the middlemost containing a round white 

 or reddish white dot. Hind wings smoky brown. 



Antenna? dark brown ; palpi, head, and thorax light brown •, 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wings rather broad, costa 

 gently arched, not folded, apex blunt, hind margin hardly 

 oblique ; ground colour reddish white ; markings rich choco- 

 late brown, consisting of a large complete basal blotch with 

 oblique margin, bounded by a narrow stripe of ground colour, 

 and a broad central band containing a central white round 

 dot, and edged by a narrow sinuous oblique jDale stripe often 

 forked towards both costal and dorsal margin ; on the costa 

 towards the apex are several whitish spots ; apical and hinder 

 area otherwise dark ; cilia creamy white, shaded with brown. 

 Female decidedly smaller but stouter, the colour and 

 markings more bright and glistening. 



Underside of the fore wings shining leaden brown ; costa 

 and hind margin dotted with creamy white. Hind wings 

 dark lead colour. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Larva apparently undescribed ; polyphagous upon low- 

 growing plants from September till spring. (Sorhagen.) 



The moth frequents very wet spots in marshy ground, 

 sometimes patches of only a few yards in extent, and in them 

 is rather plentiful ; here it sits in the day time, the males 

 among the grass and herbage in the moist open places, the 

 female preferring to hide under the shelter of sallow bushes. 

 Extraordinarily local, the little spot of a few yards in extent 

 to which it will confine itself differing often to no appre- 

 ciable extent from the surrounding fen or bog. Lively 

 and easily disturbed, the males more particularly, in the 

 sunshine but flying of its own accord towards sunset. To 

 be found in this remarkably secluded manner in suitable 

 localities in Surrey, Hants, Wilts, Cambs, Suffolk, Norfolk, 

 Worcestershire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, Cumber- 



