SERia )Rm.-E—MALON()TA. 1 53 



On the wing i'roni June to the middle of August. 



Lx\RVA cippareutly uudesciibed. The late ]\Ir. J. Sang 

 reared several of the moths from larvee feeding upon Roaa 

 spiiiosisdina, supposed, when found, to belong to another 

 species, of which no description was taken. Mr. Wilkinson 

 seems to have been misled about this species; the larva to 

 which he refers is probably that of Carpocapsct iiimbana. 



This is a very lively, swift, and active species, flying at 

 great speed along hedges and the edges of woods in the late 

 afternoon sunshine, Sometimes it seems to confine itself to 

 the shelter of rose bushes, but I have often seen it dashing 

 wildly backward and forward along the sheltered side of 

 great masses of the climbing black bryony and other thick 

 hedge plants. Without some suitable background it is a 

 difficult species to see upon the wing. Although a local 

 species it has rather a wide distribution, occurring from 

 Kent and Surrey to Devon and Somerset ; also in Middlesex, 

 Herts, Essex, Norfolk, the western counties from Gloucester- 

 shire to Lancashire and even Westmoreland, and very locally 

 in Durham. In Wales it is recorded in Brecon ; in Scot- 

 land, in the Edinburgh district, Perthshire, and Dumbarton- 

 shire, but I am not sure of its existence in Ireland. Abroad 

 it inhabits Germany, Galicia, Switzerland, Piedmont and 

 Livonia. 



Genus 25. CARPOCAPSA. 



Antennpe thick, notched, densely ciliated ; palpi small 

 and slender ; thorax robust, smooth ; fore wings broad and 

 almost squared, costa not folded ; hind wings smooth and 

 even. 



We have five species. 

 A. Fore wings deep slate colour, with a very large purple 

 ocellus. G. pomojiella. 



