2IO LEPIDOPTERA. 



of Wight; at Poole Harbour, Dorset; in Sussex, and in 

 Suffolk ; always on or near the sea-coast. Abroad it is 

 recorded from Germany and Moravia, but it seems still to be 

 in some degree confounded with the previous and other 

 allied species. 



3. G. citrana, Hah. — Expanse | inch (18-20 mm.). 

 Fore wings rather pointed ; bright yellow with orange- 

 brown stripes. 



Antennas notched, slender, yellowish-white ; palpi, head, 

 and thorax sulphur-yellow ; abdomen whitish-brown. Fore 

 wings rather elongated and pointed, costa very flatly arched, 

 apex rather sharply angnlated, hind margin oblique and 

 nearly straight ; sulphur-yellow with the markings orange- 

 brown ; an oblique, straight, but constricted, transverse stripe 

 near the base ; another, broader, placed as an oblique central 

 band, but indented and scarcely attaining either margin, 

 throwing out from its middle a similar stripe quite into 

 the apex of the wing ; above this are three or four costal 

 spots ; ocellus contracted and obscure, containing two or 

 three minute, elongated, black dots ; cilia pale yellow, dusted 

 with yellow-brown. Hind wings very pale, smoky-brown, 

 with a faint purplish Hush ; cilia white. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown ; costa dotted 

 with yellow ; cilia yellow. Hind wings smoky-white. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June, and as a 

 second generation at the end of July and in August. 



Larva not certainly known. Bossier says that it feeds on 

 spun-together flowers of Achillea millefolium. Roesel says 

 those of Artemisia campestris ; others suggest Ononis. 



The moth hides during the day among low growing 

 herbage close to the ground, but may be disturbed by the 

 footstep on sunny afternoons, when it flies swiftly to a 

 similar hiding place. I have myself disturbed it princijaally 

 from among or near Achillea (milfoil), others find the thick 



