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•excrement in the mine {Pinus picea). (Ratzeburg.) Pupating 

 in the earth. 



This species also flies in the middle of the day, in the sun- 

 shine, around the fir trees ; but has been found by Mr. I. 

 Hartley Durrand in far greater numbers in Norfolk, fre- 

 quenting the curious dense hedges of stunted fir which are 

 common on the Breck sand of that county. He says : "When 

 first met with they occurred only on the sunny side of the 

 trees, and when I moved to the hedges they were still on the 

 sunny side. The male appears to fly for little more than 

 half an hour at midday, seeking the female, which in my 

 experience is found only on the shady side : after this brief 

 flight they only fly when disturbed. When roused by the 

 beating-stick the male flies out, but the female drops to the 

 ground like a stone." By far the most frequently obtained 

 in Norfolk ; but Canon Cruttwell has found it in Oxfordshire 

 and Dr. Wood in Herefordshire, and it is recorded from 

 C.-imbs, Surrey, and Kent. This is the limit of our present 

 knowledge of its distribution here. Abroad it is found 

 throughout Central Europe, and in Scandinavia and West 

 Central Russia. 



10. A. ustomaculana, Cwrz;.— Expanse h inch (12 mm.). 

 Fore wings rather broad, black-brown, with a large whitish 

 dorsal blotch and a greyer one at the anal angle. 



Antennas black-brown ; palpi white, shaded with brown ; 

 head and thorax white above, dull dark brown at the sides ; 

 abdomen brown. Fore wings moderately broad, costa arched, 

 : apex angulated, hind margin retuse, and expanded below ; 

 black-brown ; on the middle of the dorsal margin is a broad 

 white blotch, which extends towards the base of the wing, 

 and is flecked with faint brown lines ; on the costa beyond 

 the middle are four pairs of faint silvery white streaks, the 

 outermost the whitest ; ocellus large, dusky white to the 

 anal angle and containing small forked brown streaks ; at 



