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day time, and ag'ain in the evening, but between 4 and 5 p.m. 

 found it flying, and captured a fair number. More recently 

 Mr. E. South found it among the same plant in North 

 Devon ; he noticed that it flew for a short time between 

 3 and 4 p.m., and that afterwards it might be found sitting 

 on the upper side of the leaves, i'ingly or in pairs. I find 

 no record for any other Southern County, but it is found 

 locally in Herefordshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, 

 and Cumberland. In Scotland Sir Robert Moncreiffe took 

 it in Perthshire ; Mr, Dalgleish records it at Crookstown, 

 Renfrew ; and the late Mr. R. F. Logan discovered it long 

 before at Duddingstone, Edinburgh. Abroad it inhabits the 

 South of France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, 

 and Austria. 



7. H. foenella, Linn. — Expanse f to 1 inch (18-25 mm.). 

 Fore wings broad purple-brown with a large angulated 

 scythe-shaped dorsal white markiug. 



Antennas dull brown ; palpi dull white ; head brownish- 

 white ; thorax reddish-brown ; abdomen rather paler. Fore 

 legs elongated and broad ; costa folded yet well arched ; apex 

 squarely angulated ; rich purple-brown with a tall oblique, 

 silvery-white dorsal blotch, which is produced above and bent 

 somewhat into the shape of a scythe or flagellum ; ocellus 

 large but obscure, greyish-white, containing a line of black 

 dots, its inner edge perpendicular; costa dotted with four 

 small twin brownish- white streaks ; cilia red-brown. Hind 

 wings dark smoky-brown ; cilia white. Female similar but 

 larger, and with the costa devoid of fold. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown ; hind wings a 

 shade paler. 



A variety occurs now and then in which the white marking 

 is quite obliterated by the ground colour. 



On the wing from the end of June till August. 



Larva yellowish-white, head heart-shaped, dark chestnut- 



