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Kingdom wherever furze is found, and in the absence of this 

 plant usually to be found about one of its other food-plants. 

 Abroad it has a wide range through Central and most part 

 of Southern Eui^ope, Livonia, Iceland, the Caucasus, Asia 

 Minor, and North-East Africa ; and Lord Walsingham found 

 it in Oregon, North America. 



Genus 8. PYRODES. 



Antennae very thick ; palpi short, blunt, and thickly tufted ; 

 thorax smooth ; fore wings narrow, costa not folded ; hind 

 wings with a thick ridge of scales on the median nervure. 



We have onlv one species. 



1. P. rhediella, Linn. — Expanse | inch (9 mm.). A 

 little species ; fore wings dark red-brown, shading behind to 

 light chestnut ; almost without markings. 



Antennae brown-black ; palpi, head, and thorax dark 

 red-brown ; abdomen black-brown. Fore winsrs rather 

 narrow, costa hardly arched, not folded, but the basal area 

 rather depressed, apex bluntly angulated ; dark red-brown, 

 shading beyond the middle to bright chestnut ; in this apical 

 chestnut area are four, faintly jDaler costal dots, also two 

 distinct streaks indicating the sides of an obscure ocellus ; 

 cilia white; hind wings pale smoky-brown, cilia white. 

 Female similar, but a little larger. 



Underside of the fore wings shining leaden-brown ; hind 

 margin paler. Hind wings leaden white. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva apparently undescribed. At the end of June in 

 the green berries of the hawthorn {Crataegus oxyacantJia), 

 or abroad in the flowers and young berries of dogwood 

 {Cornus sanguinea). Said also to feed in the berries of 

 service {Pyrus torminalis) Assuming the pupa state in the 

 earth, or in rotten wood, or soft bark. 



