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May and June on sallow — Salix caprea^ S. rcpens, S. 

 viminalis, in the shoots, drawing together the young leaves, 

 but living in a chamber constructed of small withered bits 

 of leaf, lined with silk, which it is very unwilling to 

 leave, and to which if removed it quickly returns. When 

 full fed it moves to the stem or any other piece of soft 

 wood, into which it burrows to spin up. 



Pupa light chestnut-colour. In a cocoon in the soft 

 wood just mentioned, or in rotten wood, or a twig of osier, 

 or even in the dead sticks of Eiipatorium cannahinum. 



The moth loves to sit in the sun on sallow leaves in 

 the afternoon, and I have seen it at that time at rest 

 in a blossom of the lovely white Parnassia palustris, where 

 it looked somewhat conspicuous. Usually about marshy 

 woods and also in fens among the sallows ; found in such 

 situations in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Dorset, Devon, 

 Somerset, Berks, Herts, Essex, Norfolk, Cambs, Gloucester- 

 shire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and rarely in 

 Durham and Northumberland. In Wales, in Pembroke- 

 shire, where it frequents lanes ; and in Ireland, where 

 Colonel Partridge has taken it nearEnniskillen, ; but I have 

 no record for Scotland. Abroad it inhabits Central Europe, 

 Piedmont, Scandinavia, and South East Russia. 



2. S. gallicolana, Zell; obscurana, Stii. Manual; 

 vernana, Knaggs. — Expanse f to | inch (9-13 mm.). Fore 

 wings narrow, rich brown-black with pale yellow costal dots, 

 and a broad blunt pale yellow central dorsal blotch. 



Antennae black-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax black- 

 brown, mottled with white ; abdomen grey-black. Fore 

 wings rather narrow, costa nearly straight, apex bluntly 

 angulated ; black-brown dusted behind with yellow ; costa 

 dotted throughout with yellow, and on its hinder portion hav- 

 ing short white streaks ; in the middle of the dorsal margin 



