126 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Aberdeen ; and in Ireland from Dublin, Galvvay, Antrim, 

 and Derry. Abroad it is generally distributed over Central 

 Europe, Scandinavia, Italy, Dalmatia, and Armenia. 



lo. A. upupana, Tr. — Expanse | inch (15 mm.). 

 Fore wings rather broad, very shortly hooked at the apex, 

 dark orange umbreous shaded with tawny toward the apex. 



Antennas black-brown ; palpi and head dull brown ; thorax 

 red-brown ; abdomen blackish brown. Fore wings rather 

 broad and short, costa regularly arched, apex stoutly hooked, 

 hiud margin retuse and very full ; blackish chocolate shading 

 to light chocolate or tawny toward the apex ; costa beyond 

 the middle dotted with bright yellow ; in the middle of the 

 hind margin is a pale 3^ellow streak edged by a short black 

 line ; cilia pale brown, with one or two white dashes beneath 

 the apex. Hind wings brown-black with brownish white 

 cilia. Female similar. 



Undersides of all the wings blackish bi'own, finely dusted 

 with pale yellow ; costa and tips of the cilia of the fore wings 

 dotted with white. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June. 



Larva cylindrical, slightly tapering towards either 

 extremity, olive green, dusted with olive brown, especially so 

 on the third, fourth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth seg- 

 ments ; spiracular region olive green ; head black ; dorsal 

 plate black, divided in the middle and having two black 

 tubercles on either side of the division ; the raised dots 

 each with light glistening tubercles, emitting a light 

 coloured hair ; anal plate wanting ; prolegs olive green ; 

 spiracles black. (B. A. Bower.) 



September, on birch, uniting two leaves, forming a flat and 

 decidedly circular chamber with its edges neatly fastened 

 together, eating the interior surfaces of the leaves, and 

 hibernating in one of these chambers, assuming the pupa 

 state late the following spring. (B. A. B.) There is some 



