2i8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



reported from the Midlands. In Wales I captured it in 

 Pembrokeshire ; but in Scotland I find no record ; and in 

 Ireland only in Cork, Wicklow, and Antrim. Abroad it 

 occurs throughout Central Europe, Central and Northern 

 Italy, Scandinavia, and South-west Russia. 



9. G. albersana, Rill. — Expanse i to | inch (12-16 

 mm.). Fore wings rather broad, purple-brown to two- 

 thirds of their length, the rest bronze-yeliow. 



Antenna3 golden brown, palpi dull brown, head and 

 thorax golden brown, abdomen silvery white. Fore winsfs 

 rather broad, costa arched, apex and hind margin squared ; 

 two-thirds of the wing from the base purple-brown, its outer 

 margin oblique and faintly curved ; remaining area, to the 

 apex and hind margin, bronzy yellow and pale golden 

 brown, and several red-brown streaks edged with silvery 

 white from the costa to the ocellus : this last is edged with 

 silvery white and contains two short black lines ; cilia pale 

 yellow-brown. Hind wings smoky white, with white cilia. 

 Female similar, but with darker hind wings. 



Underside of the fore wings shining leaden black, shaded 

 at the apex with pale yellow, which also runs along the hind 

 margin. Hind wings leaden white. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva slender, tapering toward the tail ; dorsal region 

 covered with small eminences of different shapes from the 

 depth of the cross-segmental divisions ; head yellow-brown, 

 with two black dots ; mouth brown ; dorsal plate pale horn 

 colour, with a deep black dot on each side ; body dull green- 

 grey ; dorsal canal irregular, darker ; anal plate shiny dark 

 brown ; legs and prologs rather paler than the body. 



August and September on honeysuckle in a large chamber 

 formed by joining the edges of the leaves together, or the 

 edge of one to a midrib, and gnawing the inner surface of 



