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the leaf. Remaining in the chamber thus formed through 

 the winter, and assuming the pupa state therein in the 

 spring. 



This species loves the open portions of woods, where a 

 wide footpath passes between abundant bushes, and honey- 

 suckle creeps about everywhere among them. Here it flies 

 high over the bushes in the afternoon sunshine, or sits on 

 the oak bushes ; buzzing along the path or among the bushes 

 toward sunset, ^s it sits on the oak leaves and shoots 

 it looks curiously like a capsule that has fallen from some 

 neighbouring tree. Very common in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, 

 Hants, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, Berks, Middlesex, Herts, 

 and Essex, also to be found in Norfolk, Herefordshire, and 

 even in Yorkshire occasionally. In Wales it occurs in the 

 woods of Pembrokeshire ; and in Ireland at Killarney ; but I 

 have no knowledge of its presence in any other part of the 

 United Kingdom. Abroad its range is through Central 

 Europe, Piedmont, Sicily, Jutland, Livonia, and South-West 

 Russia. 



10. G. microgramniana, Gn. — Expanse \ inch (12 

 mm.). Fore wings rather squared, pale grey-brown, covered 

 all over with faint silvery lines and ripples. 



Antennas black-brown ; palpi and head dull pale brown ; 

 thorax and abdomen silvery brown. Fore wings somewhat 

 squared, costa very faintly curved, apex rather squarely 

 angulated ; pale grey-brown, the basal half stippled with 

 delicate silvery grey transverse lines ; costal portion of the 

 remainder similarly streaked, and the rest also finely dusted 

 with minute yellow dots ; costa barred throughout with 

 oblique alternate grey lines and silvery white streaks ; 

 ocellus not very distinct, bat large and squared, edged on 

 either side with silvery white, and containing a row of black 

 lines ; cilia grey-brown. Hind wings and their cilia smoky 

 white. Female similar. 



