202 LEPIDOPTERA. 



called joarvidana abounds in the Isle of Wight about the 

 blossoms of Scrratula tindoria, but elsewhere is only casual 

 among the ordinary specimens about the Ccntaurea. Com- 

 mon throughout England to Northumberland; and doubtless 

 through Wales, where it abounds in Pembrokeshire. In 

 Scotland extending to the Orkney Isles ; and in Ireland 

 abundant on the Dublin coast, and found in Kerry, Mayo, 

 Sligo, Tyrone and Donegal. Abroad it is plentiful through- 

 out Central and Northern Europe, but its range does not 

 seem to be fully reognised. 



3. A. fulvana, Stcph. jaceana, Hein., carduana, Gn. 

 — Expanse | to ^ inch (18-22 mm.). Soft yellow brown, 

 or pale fawn colour, sometimes with a chestnut basal blotch ; 

 ocellus shining ; costa with numerous shining oblique silvery 

 lines. 



Antennas pale drab ; palpi, head, and thorax red-drab ; 

 abdomen pale brown. Fore wings elongated but moderately 

 broad, costa nearly straight, folded at the base, apex rather 

 sharply angulated ; hind margin not very oblique, yellowish 

 fulvous or fawn colour, with long oblique pale buff streaks 

 from the costa separated by silvery white oblique lines ; 

 dorsal half of the basal blotch rich fulvous ; ocellus glisten- 

 ing silvery drab, containing a cluster of black dots ; cilia 

 pale buff. Hind wings light brown at the apex and hind 

 margin, shading to dull white toward the base ; cilia white. 

 Female similar, without the fold, but the fore wings very 

 slightly broader and often dusted with black or brown from 

 the base. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown with paler 

 margins. Hind wings leaden white. 



Not usually variable, but occasionally extremely small 

 specimens occur, as in the last species. 



On the wing from the end of June till August. 



Larva tolerably active, plump, with deeply divided 



