18 LEPTDOPTERA 



This species has the singular habit of depositing its eggs 

 in midwinter, so that its larvas hatch out about three weeks 

 earlier than those of 0. vaccinii ; the moth, however, usually 

 emerges from pupa a week or two later than that species. It 

 hides in the daytime in the same manner among leaves, 

 usually upon the ground, and comes at dusk with equal 

 readiness to sugar, ivy-bloom, over-ripe blackberries, rotten 

 apples, and other sweets, and may be similarly attracted in 

 mild weather in the winter, but seems usually to perish 

 before the spring. Partial to lanes and hedges as well as 

 woods, and often to be found on the small bunches of bloom- 

 ing ivy in the hedges. More local than the last species and 

 usually much less common, yet far from rare in the Southern 

 and Eastern Counties and throughout the west and south- 

 west ; also to be found in suitable places throughout England, 

 even to Cumberland and Northumberland ; yet, so far as I 

 know, not recognised in Scotland. This must, I think, arise 

 from its having occasionally been confounded with G. vaccinii, 

 and not from total absence, though Dr. Buchanan White says 

 that of its presence in that country there is no satisfactory 

 evidence. Tn Wales it is moderately common, to Pembroke- 

 shire ; in Ireland always rare, but has been noticed in Kerry, 

 Tyrone, Cavan, and Antrim, and at Enniskillen. Abroad, if 

 not overlooked or confounded with the previous species, its 

 range is not very wide, being confined to Central Europe, the 

 South of France, and Spain. 



Genus 80. SCOPELOSOMA. 



Antennae threadlike ; eyes naked, with strong front and 

 back lashes ; thorax squared and having a distinct narrow 

 top crest ; abdomen much flattened and without crests ; fore 

 wings long, even in width, hind margin decidedly scalloped ; 

 hind wings broad, with crenulated hind margin ; vein 5 

 hardly perceptible. 



We have but one species. 



