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Pupa cylindrical, pale yellow ; in the earth. (Gartner.) 



This was not recognised as a British species till about the 

 year 1863, though taken earlier. It sometimes frequents 

 gardens, at others is found in clover fields, or in quan-ies or 

 other rough places where the wild lettuce grows, and flies 

 about the flower-heads towards sunset. A local species with 

 us, but to be found occasionally, though rarely, in the London 

 suburbs, much more frequently on the chalk of Kent and 

 Surrey, and of Cambridgeshire; also in Essex and Oxford- 

 shire, but not, I think, elsewhei-e in the United Kingdom. 

 Abroad it is well distributed over Central Europe, and in 

 Sweden, Piedmont, Dalmatia, South-west Eussia, and 

 Turcomania. 



7. G. aspidiscana, Huh. — Expanse | inch (15-17 mm.). 

 Fore wings squared, golden-brown, banded with red-brown 

 and streaked with shining white. 



Antennae black-brown ; palpi and head pale brown ; 

 thorax red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wings 

 elongated and rather squared, costa nearly straight, apex 

 squarel}^ angulated, hind margin straight, but not quite 

 perpendicular; golden red-brown, or chestnut-brown ; costa 

 minutely dotted throughout with black ; before the middle 

 a pair of white costal streaks is prolonged into a bent 

 bluish-grey transverse band ; beyond are pairs of bright 

 white costal streaks, the outer pairs running together be- 

 neath ; ocellus large, lustrous, edged with bright silvery- 

 white, streaked and dotted with deep black ; cilia red-brown, 

 shaded with white. Hind wings smoky dark-brown ; cilia 

 white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale leaden-brown ; costa 

 dotted with white. Hind wings pale leaden-brown. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva when young dirty white ; when full grown flesh- 

 colour with two rows of brown raised dots ; head and dorsal 



