2o8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



yellow with a deep purple dorsal stripe and paler purple or 

 purple-grey subdorsal and spiracular stripes, all interrupted 

 at the segmental divisions ; head black, deeply lobed ; dorsal 

 plate whitish with a black spot on each side, and two black 

 •dots between them ; anal plate light brown with the dorsal 

 stripe visible through it. 



August and September, in flower-heads of Solidago 

 mrgaurea, eating out the unripe seeds and passing from 

 one flower to another, but not attaching them together by 

 any web. When full-fed leaving the flowers to spin up among 

 rubbish, but not assuming the pupa state till the following 

 summer. This larva possesses the instinct of escaping from 

 any state of confinement in perhaps a greater degree than 

 almost any other, and when tightly tied down in a flower- 

 pot will so thrust itself under the covering material as to 

 become crushed quite Jiat, and thus commit suicide. This it 

 is almost impossible to prevent ! 



The moth hides among its food-plant, or in neighbouring 

 furze-bushes, or other thick shelter, but on warm still after- 

 noons flies from 5 to 6 p.m., in the buzzing manner peculiar 

 to the group, about the golden-red blossoms. At any other 

 time it is by no means easy to disturb. Very local, but 

 found in Kent, Susses, Surrey, Essex, Suffolk, Somerset, 

 Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire ; and in Wales on the 

 sea-coast of Pembrokeshire. In Scotland it is reported from 

 Argyle, Dumbartonshire, Renfrew, and Arran ; but I have 

 no record from Ireland. Abroad it seems to be limited to 

 Central Europe, and the region of the Caucasus. 



2. G. tripoliana, Baro: — Expanse | inch (15 mm.). 

 Fore wings pale yellow brown marbled and streaked with 

 tawny brown ; two black streaks in the ocellus. 



Antennae brown ; palpi and head dull brownish white ; 

 thorax pale yellow brown; abdomen blackish brown. Fore 

 wings not very broad, costa not folded, scarcely arched, 



