6S LEPIDOPTERA. 



to another resting-place. Before dusk it begins to move 

 about of its own accord and then flies about the trees, con- 

 tinuing active till late at night and coming readily to a 

 strong light. Rather a local species ; plentiful in the New 

 Foi^est and about Bournemouth, Hants, and also in the fir- 

 woods of Norfolk. Occasionally to be found in the suburbs 

 of London and elsewhere among fir-trees in Middlesex, 

 Surrey and Kent, also in Dorset, Wilts, Berks, Herts, Essex, 

 Suffolk, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire and North 

 Lancashire. I have no records in other parts of the United 

 Kingdom. Abroad it inhabits the South of France, South 

 Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria, the Tyrol, Norway and 

 Dalmatia. 



4. E. euphorbiana, Frr. — Expanse, f inch (10 mm.). 

 Fore wings rich dark orange-brown with a straight yellow 

 transverse band near the base. Hind wings black-brown. 



Antenna? and palpi black-brown ; head and thorax of the 

 same colour but with orange dusting ; abdomen dark brown. 

 Fore wings somewhat ovate, costa gently arched, apex 

 very bluntly angulated ; black-brown, dusted with golden 

 yellow, or orange-brown ; just before the middle is an orange- 

 yellow transverse band; which separates the bi-oad basal 

 blotch from the equally broad central band, and is broadest 

 in the dorsal margin, and almost the only bright coloured 

 marking ; apical area faintly clouded with yellow ; costa 

 and hind margin dotted with the same ; cilia orange-yellow 

 shaded with black-brown. Hind wings and cilia smoky 

 black or brown-black. Female similar. 



Undersides of all the wings smoky black, with a thin 

 yellow line along the hind margins ; costa of fore wings 

 dotted with yellow. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June, and a partial 

 second generation in August and September. 



