266 LEPIDOPTERA. 



found lying curved in the burrow ; when older penetrating 

 to the middle of the root-stock and feeding on the pith. 

 Pupating in the larval habitation. 



The male moth flies vigorously in the hot sunshine through 

 the day, settling from time to time on the tansy plants — 

 where the female remains at rest till sunset ; but both are 

 readily captured about the plants, though seldom found 

 away from them. Rather local, yet found, and often 

 commonly, in Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, 

 Wilts, Berks, Oxfordshire, Oambs, Suffolk, Norfolk, Here- 

 fordshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Lanca- 

 shire ; and in Wales in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland only 

 recorded from Perthshire; and in Ireland from Athlone and 

 Antrim. Abroad it is found in France, Germany, Spain, 

 and Northern Italy. 



