226 LEPIDOFTERA. 



thorax olive-brown ; abdomen black-brown. Fore wings 

 not broad, but somewhat trigonate ; costa nearlj^ straight, 

 not folded ; apex rather sharply angulated, hind margin 

 oblique ; olive-black finely dusted over its outer area with 

 yellow-brown ; on the middle of the dorsal margin is a 

 nearly erect, but curved, slender silvery-white streak, or 

 dorsal blotch ; costa thickly dotted with rich creamy-white, 

 from two of which dots faintly lustrous lines continue to the 

 ocellus ; this last is of the ground colour, faintly edged with 

 silvery lines, and contains several elongated black dots ; 

 cilia olive- brown. Hind wings creamy- white at the base, 

 shading to smoky brown behind ; cilia white. Female 

 darker; hind wings brown-black, with white cilia. 



Underside of the fore wings shining lead-colour, shading to 

 leaden-white in the middle and dorsal area. Hind wings as 

 on the upper side. 



Very rarely an aberration is found in which the dorsal blotch 

 is partially obliterated, and represented only by a spot, or 

 two. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva deep yellow, head very little darker, raised dots 

 invisible. (J. Sang.) , 



June and July in the pods of Orohus tuherosus, eating 

 through the middle of the seeds. It leaves the pod when 

 full-fed and spins a thick cocoon among rubbish. 



Usually a northern species, but found in upland pastures 

 where Orohus is common. It flies in the afternoon sunshine 

 over the rough herbage here and on railway banks and 

 rough hill-sides. When the sun is not shining it sits among 

 patches or jolauts of vetch and is difiicult to disturb ; but in 

 bright weather it is almost as lively as Grapholitha ulicetana. 

 Its most southern locality with us, so far as I know, is in the 

 Black Mountain district of Herefordshire, where Dr. Wood 

 has found it in meadows at the mountain foot, and it does 



