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the weather is warm, at all hours, and to be found in almost 

 every grassy place. Common in the suburbs of London, 

 and throughout England and Wales ; but less so in the 

 northern counties ; yet found in Scotland in the Edinburgh 

 and Clyde districts including Galloway, also in Perthshire. 

 Ini Ireland reported from the Dublin district, Galway, 

 Sligo, Down, Antrim, and Fermanagh. Abroad common 

 throughout Central Europe, Spain, Italy, Sardinia, and 

 Dalrnatia, and in North America, in California. 



2. L. saturnana, Ga., tanaceti, Wilk., Sfn. (?) — Ex- 

 panse h to I inch (12-16 mm.). Rather stout ; fore wings 

 moderately broad, olive brown tliickly dusted with 3'ellow 

 dots, and with a broad, hardly perceptible paler dorsal 

 blotch. 



Antennae, palj)i, head, and thorax olive-brown dusted 

 with yellow ; abdomen shining brown. Fore wings rather 

 broad, costa without fold, very gently arched; apex bluntly 

 angulated, hind margin but little oblique ; olive brown very 

 thickly and minutely dusted with yellow and black scales ; 

 dorsal blotch very indistinctly paler, broad, somewhat con- 

 stricted about the middle, costal streaks broad, almost 

 triangular, but obscure, leaden white ; cilia shining pale 

 brown. Hind wings smoky brown with dull white cilia- 

 Female similar, often darker. 



Undersides of all the wings shining light leaden brown. 



On the wing in June and' July. 



Larva short and stout, semi-transparent, white with a 

 distinctly visible internal brown dorsal vessel, and colourless 

 shining raised dots ; head deeply lobed, light brown ; mouth 

 darker brown ; dorsal and anal plates very faintly brownish, 

 both mottled behind with darker brown. 



October till May in root-stocks of tansy {Tanacetum 

 vulgare) ; when young mining under the bark, where it may be 



