i68 LEPIDOPTERA. 



sometimes to feed in one umbel ! When full-fed leaving ' 

 the seed-head to spin up in the earth, where it remains as a 

 larva until the spring. 



The moth sits among the herbage in fields, especially 

 those in which wild carrot is plentiful, and may sometimes 

 be trodden up in the afternoon sunshine. At sunset it flies 

 about rather quickly, keeping usually low down among the 

 herbage. Most plentiful near the sea coast, but to be found 

 in chalky districts throughout England, and doubtless 

 Wales, where it is not rare in the limestone of Pembroke- 

 shire. In Scotland apparently restricted to the West — 

 Ayrshire, Renfrew and elsewhere in the Clyde district. In 

 Ireland it has been taken on the Dublin coast and near 

 Galway and Tyrone. 



Abroad it seems only to be recorded from Prance, 

 Holland, Germany, and Sweden. 



6. S. janthinana, I)wp. — Expanse f inch (10-mm.). 

 Pore wings rich dark brown, minutely marbled with golden 

 yellow ; apical cilia yellow. 



Antennae brown ; palpi whitish-brown ; head and thorax 

 yellow-brown ; abdomen black-brown. Pore wings short, 

 somewhat ovate ; costa flatly arched, apex bluntly angu- 

 lated, hind margin nearly perpendicular ; rich yellowish- 

 umbreous, dusted with yellow ; basal blotch indicated by 

 an angulated darker outer marginal streak, following which 

 is a more golden, faint oblique dorsal blotch ; costa dotted 

 with yellow, the dot before the apex produced into a streak 

 and pointing to a straight similar streak from the hind 

 margin ; ocellus extremely faint ; cilia yellow-brown. Hind 

 wings and their cilia smoky-brown. Pemale similar. 



Undersides of all the wings pale leaden-brown ; costa and 

 apex of the fore wings dotted with white. 



On the wing from June till August. 



Larva similar to that of Carpocapsa pomonclla ; dull white 



