146 LEFIDOPTERA. 



Abroad it is commou throughout Central Europe, Scandi- 

 navia, Spain, Greece, and Asia Minor. 



5. H. grandee vana, ^(//.—Expanse f to IJ inch (18-28 

 mm.). Fore wings very broad, pale drab dusted almost all 

 over with faint brown dots and clouds ; hind wings ample, 

 pale smoky-brown. 



Antennfe pale grey ; palpi, head, and thorax dark brown ; 

 abdomen dull pale brown. Fore wings large and broad ; 

 costa folded and gently arched, apex very bluntly angulated, 

 almost rounded ; hind margin curved ; pale drab, sprinkled 

 almost all over with faint white dots and brown cloudy spots 

 and dots ; on the costa is a long series of such spots ; some- 

 times the curved outer edge of a large basal blotch is 

 perceptible; or in other cases the brown cloudy dots cluster 

 together along the disk, but there are no other definite 

 markings ; cilia drab. Hind wings and their cilia smoky 

 whitish-brown. Female similar but larger and stouter and 

 without the costal fold. 



Underside of the fore wings pale leadeu-brown ; costa 

 dotted with white. Hind wings dull white. 



On the wing in July. 



Larva thick, yellow, more reddish above ; with strong 

 brown single hair-bearing raised dots ; head brown ; dorsal 

 plate paler, shining, brown on both sides. (Hofmann.) 



March and April in the roots of coltsfoot (^Tussikifjo 

 farfara), also in those of Petasites albus and P. nivcus. Mr. 

 J. Gardner informs me as follows : " It at first feeds inside 

 the root of coltsfoot, working downwards from the crown of 

 the root, where I presume the eggs are laid. When it 

 becomes about three-fourths of an inch in length, which is 

 in September or October, it spins long pipe-stem-like tubes, 

 in which it winters, apparently without eating. I found 

 other, smaller, larvte during the winter, without tubes, but 

 lower down in the soil than those having webs. In the spring 



