SERICORIDAi—ANCHYLOPERA. 1 17 



Larva dirty green with paler hair-bearing raised dots ; 

 head pale brown with two black horse shoe-shaped markings 

 on itH hinder edge ; dorsal plate pale yellow with two small 

 black dots. 



June in spun together root-leaves of Poterium sanguisorha , 

 Potent ilia, Teucrium, in Thynms, and in high mountain dis- 

 tricts on Dryas octopetala. (0. Hofmann.) Second generation 

 in September and hybernating full grown. In North America 

 it is said to feed on strawberry and sometimes to be very 

 mischievous. 



Exceedingly abundant on chalk hills in the South of 

 England, buzzing quietly about in every direction in the 

 afternoon sunshine ; and even more plentifully about sunset- 

 It keeps very near the ground, darting in and out among the 

 short herbage, and requires a quick eye for capture. 



In chalky places, on hills especially, in Kent, Sussex, 

 Surrey, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Wilts, 

 Berks, Oxfordshire, Bucks, Gloucestershire, Cambs, and 

 Suffolk ; also in Wales in Glamorganshire. Single records 

 in one or two distant districts seem to be suggestive of error 

 as to the species, and are therefore omitted. Abroad it is 

 found in most parts of Central Europe, Sweden, Italy, the 

 north of Spain, Dalmatia, Livonia, Finland, and Asia Minor ; 

 and in North America in Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts 

 and California. 



7. A. myrtillana, Tr.— Expanse | to f inch (12- 

 15 mm.). Fore wings very sharply hooked at the apex ; 

 pale silvery grey or greyish white, with a large chocolate- 

 coloured dorsal blotch, at the top of which is an angulated 

 projection. 



Antennse dark brown ; palpi, head, and thorax dull pale 

 chocolate •, abdomen silvery-grey. Costa of the fore wings 

 very flatly arched, apex very pointed and hooked, hind 

 margin retuse ; pale silvery-grey dusted with brown ; basal 



