72 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Antenna- brown ; palpi, head and thorax reddisli drab ; 

 abdomen light brown. Fore wings somewhat squared and 

 of rather even width; costa not folded, nearly- straight; 

 apex squarely angulated, hind margin nearly straight; pale 

 tawny brown or nut-brown ; costa regularly dotted with 

 darker brown; basal blotch rather indistinct, brown dusted 

 with black, more particularly upon the median nervure, and 

 there also somewhat squarely angulated ; central band 

 narrow and very oblique, also dull brown and usually 

 broken in the middle ; cilia brown shaded with smoky 

 black. Hind wings and their cilia pale smoky brown. 

 Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown ; costa dotted 

 with white ; dorsal region broadly leaden white. Hind 

 wings smoky white. 



On the wing from the end of April till June and as a 

 second generation from the end of July till September. 



LAin A stout, tapering to each end, greenish brown with 

 black raised dots, from each of which grows a single hair ; 

 head pale brown, darker on the crown ; a delicate V-like 

 mark edges the lobes in front ; dorsal plate shining 

 umbreous, divided in the middle by a milk-white line. 

 (H. Moncreaf.) 



April and May and a second generation in July and 

 August, on Bii.phorUa paraliaH, E. portlandka, E. characias 

 and other species of spurge, especially those growing at the 

 seaside ; cutting off and partially devouring the leaves and 

 fastening them together with silk so as to form a bunchy 

 tunnel in which it lives, coming out at night from the top 

 of this tube to feed ; ultimately also spinning up therein. 

 •Apparently to be found upon the plants in the larva or pupa 

 state almost throughout the year. 



The moth flies freely about the spurge at dusk, and 

 probably may be disturbed from among it in the daytime. 



