1 1 o LEPID OP TERA . 



Antennae light brown; palpi, head, and thorax chocolate- 

 brown, bitt shonlder-Iappets pale brown ; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wings narrow, elongated ; costa not folded, but 

 gently arched ; apex very acute and hooked, hind margin 

 retuse ; pale brownish drab with the costa obliquely dotted 

 with brown ; from the base a nearly straight black line runs 

 to the middle of the wing and, with slender interruptions, is 

 continued in a more slender form to the apex, thus dividing 

 the wing lengthwise ; dorsal margin shaded or streaked with 

 similar parallel lines and clouds ; above the anal angle is a 

 faint pale brown ocellus containing one or two black streaks ; 

 cilia brownish white. Hind wings ver}^ pale smoky brown, 

 with paler cilia. Female similar, often larger. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown ; costa dotted 

 with pale yellow-brown ; a white dash lies under the apex. 

 Hind wings smoky white. 



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

 second generation in August. 



Larva black-green with two whitish raised dots on each 

 segment ; head and dorsal plate pale yellow with a few 

 black-brown dots ; on the anal plate are two large spots. 

 (Treitschke.) 



June and July, and another generation in kSeptember and 

 October, in folded leaves of EJiamnvs franfjvla and II. cath- 

 articus, gnawing the leaves and causing them to show white 

 spots. Wilkinson, however, states that it feeds on Myriccc 

 gale ; Sorhagen says that it is polyphagous, and mentions 

 Cornus sanguinca, Zigustrum vidgarc, and Primus avium. 



Pupa in the larval habitation, or in another spun-up leaf. 



The moth hides itself during the day in bushes, especially 

 those of Bhamnus, but is easily induced to fly by the beating 

 stick. At sunset it flies quietly about its food-plant. 



Not a generally distributed or very common species, yet 

 sometimes to be taken freely in favourite spots, especially the 



