212 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Artemisia absintJiiu m (wormwood), at first mining passages 

 under the bark, afterwards boring deeply into tlie solid root, 

 eating its ])itli and substance. 



Pupa yellow-brown, the wing and limb-covers smooth and 

 shininof ; abdominal seofments more dull, each with a distinct 

 ridge of elongated points, followed by a much smaller ridge 

 of minute points ; cremaster short, broad, and blunt, finished 

 with a round cluster of minute hooks, in a slight cocoon 

 amouar rubbish, to which the full-fed larva has made its 

 way after feeding for about ten months in the rootstock. 



A singularly sluggish, quiet species, scarcely ever seen 

 voluntarily on the wing. It sits on its food-plant, the 

 wormwood, sometimes on the top branches and blossoms, 

 often lower down and more concealed, and if beaten or 

 shaken off will fiy straight to the ground, or if on a warm 

 afternoon will sometimes fly away a few feet, then either 

 settle on the ground or fly back to the wormwood. When 

 seen at rest, it will allow itself to be boxed, or bottled, with 

 little trouble. Exceedingly local and apparently confined 

 to within a short distance of the coast ; there either in some 

 quarry, or rough stony place, or even in a farmyard, where 

 the wormwood grows freely and is never touched by cattle, 

 it may sometimes be found in some numbers. It is recorded 

 in Essex, Kent, vSussex, the Isle of Wight, and the Isle of 

 Portland ; also in Yorkshire in a quarry at Seamer near 

 Scarborough ; in Wales at Barmouth, and in the coast farm- 

 yards of Pembrokeshire ; but I know of no other localities 

 in these Islands. Abroad it ranges through Central Europe, 

 Dalmatia, Finland, and Armenia. 



5. G. candidulana, JYold:, wimmerana, Wilk. Sta. 

 Man. — Expanse ^ inch (14-lG mm.). Fore wings white 

 with faint grey clouds and marginal streaks. 



Antennre dull white; palpi and head snow-white ; thorax 

 and abdomen also white. Fore wings rather narrow, costa 



