2i6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



plate sliiniug black-brown ; anal plate shield-shaped, bistre- 

 brown. (Gartner.) 



August and September in an intricate web in the flower- 

 heads of Aster amellus and Solidago virgaurca; also on 

 Chrysocoma linosyris on the Continent. Dr. Wood informs 

 me that it commences to feed in the central flower-buds, 

 which it spins together, then j5asses into the main shoot, 

 and eats it out. 



Pupa robust, cylindrical, yellow-brown, with dark brown 

 wing-cases. In a cocoon in the earth. (Gartner.) 



This species was recorded as British in 1867, though it 

 had then been repeatedly captured and disregarded ; it 

 hides by day among thick herbage in its few localities, but 

 is said to fly in the hot sunshine, or fine days, from 8 a.m. 

 till noon, and at that time to fly only short distances from 

 plant to plant and is not very particular as to what plant. 

 At sunset it flies much more swiftly and frequents open 

 woods, rough sloping ground, and quarries. Very local with 

 us and apparently confined to the west: recorded in Somer- 

 setshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, North Lancashire, 

 and Westmoreland, but so far as I know not in any other 

 part of the United Kingdom. Abroad it inhabits the greater 

 portion of Central Europe, Central Italy, Scandinavia, Asia 

 Minor, and Siberia, and was found by Lord Walsingham in 

 North America, in Oregon. 



8. G. hypericana, Hilh. — Expanse i to f inch (12-18 

 mm.). Fore wings glistening rusty-yellow or bronzy-brown, 

 with a brilliant upright streak on either side of the ocellus. 



Antennas black-brown, palpi j^ale grey ; head and thorax 

 orange-brown ; abdomen whitish brown. Fore wings rather 

 narrow, costa slightly arched, apex bluntly angulated ; 

 golden-brown or bronzy-yellow ; costa faintly dotted with 

 brown and streaked beyond the middle, obscurely, with 



