SERICORID.^—EUDEMIS. 67 



Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetland Isles; and in Ireland on 

 those of Howth near Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Sligo, Antrim 

 and Derry. Abroad it inhabits France, Holland, Spain, 

 Sweden and Iceland. 



3. E. bifasciana, Haio. ; decrepitana, H.B. — Expanse 

 \ inch (12-14 mm.). Fore wings soft reddish white or 

 salmon white, with few broad pale brown transverse bands. 



Antennae notched, black-brown ; palpi and head dull 

 drab ; thorax dark brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore 

 wings of moderate breadth, blunt, costa gently and evenly- 

 arched ; apex bluntly angulated, almost rounded ; rosy- 

 white or white clouded with salmon colour or pale buff ; 

 basal blotch large, dusky black, its outer margin oblique 

 and nearly straight ; central band of the same colour, broad 

 and even in width, and slightly oblique ; a dull black line 

 or slender cloud passes down the hind margin ; cilia cloudy 

 grey. Hind wings smoky brown ; cilia paler. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky brown ; costa and 

 hind margin dotted with white. Hind wings smoky-white. 



In freshly emerged specimens the ground colour is often 

 very brightly tinged with pink. In a very few hours of 

 flight this becomes faded to dull reddish white. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva apparently undescribed; feeding in the young 

 shoots and among the male blossom-scales and pollen masses 

 of Scotch fir {Piiius sijlvcstris), also on the stone pine 

 (P. 2nnea). 



The moth often sits upon the same masses of scales and 

 pollen of the pine on low branches and from the tinge of red 

 in its ground colour is admirably protected from notice, but 

 if disturbed will fly a short distance to hide again in the 

 tree, not darting about but proceeding straight and steadily 



