114 LEPIDOPTERA. 



smoky grey with a greenish tinge, second segment pale 

 yellow ; subdorsal lines broadly blackish, in which the 

 shining pale grey raised dots are very distinct ; head light 

 brown with a row of four black dots across its hinder portion; 

 dorsal plate whitish, also with a row of four black elongate 

 spots (when older these marks coalesce in pairs) ; under- 

 surface and prolegs pale yellowish grey ; legs black. 



August to October on sallow, especially Scdi.r, fusca, folding 

 a leaf longitudinally together, joining it into a tube with silk 

 and living within. Hybernating and becoming a pupa in the 

 larval habitation. 



The moth hides during the day in patches of dwarf sallow 

 growing on damp heaths, or sometimes among such sallows 

 in lanes and the open parts of woods, and occasionally in 

 fens ; thence it is easily I'oused, but after flying swiftly 

 about, retreats to a similar concealment, whence it may be 

 distui'bed again and again. At its time of natural flight, at 

 early dusk, it flies about the same plants, but is not very con- 

 spicuous. Formerl}' it was an inhabitant of Barnes Common 

 and Wimbledon, in the London district, and it still may be 

 found in more distant parts of Surrey, and in Kent, Sussex, 

 Hants, Dorset, Berks, Essex, Cambs, Norfolk in plenty, 

 Somerset, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Cheshire, Lanca- 

 shire and all the northern counties of England. In Scotland 

 it is recorded from the Edinburgh and Clyde districts, Perth- 

 shire, Moray and Sutherlandshire ; in Ireland in Galway, 

 Sligo, Tyrone, and Fermanagh ; but I have no record for 

 Wales. Abroad it is an inhabitant of Central Europe ; and 

 in North America Lord Walsingham has found it in Cali- 

 fornia. 



5. A. inornatana, H.-S. ; subarcuana, Dougl. Wilk. 

 — Expanse h to f inch (12-16 mm.). Fore wings hooked, 

 pale grey-drab or pale brownish grey, very plain, but having 



