4 LEPIDOPTERA, 



as it continues available. I know of no other Nodua of such 

 exceedingly gentle, placid habits as this : it continues to 

 move about until it fades to a pale yellow, and even until the 

 scales gradually wear off its wings, yet scarcely ever becomes 

 ragged or shows any indication of rough contact with leaves, 

 grass, or any substance likely to damage it. Moreover, it is 

 comparatively indifferent to weather, and will quietly visit its 

 favourite food during cold winds and heavy rain. Never 

 very common, but found in and near open woods in Kent, 

 Sussex, Surrey, Middlesex, Hants, Devon ; rarely in Dorset, 

 Cornwall, Somerset, and Gloucestershire ; also in Herts, 

 Herefordshire, and Worcestershire. In Wales it has been 

 taken in Glamorganshire, and by Col. Partridge at Dolgelly. 

 I have no knowledge of its occurrence elsewhere in the 

 British Isles. Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe, 

 Northern Italy, Spain, and Northern Turkey, but probably 

 has a far more extensive range, since it occurs in Japan. 

 Specimens from that country have received the name of 

 scricea. 



Genus 78. DASYCAMPA. 



Antennae ciliated ; eyes naked, with long front and thick 

 back lashes ; thorax faintly crested ; abdomen rather flat- 

 tened, without crests, but having colour-imitations; fore 

 wings truncate, spotted, but without definite markings ; 

 hind wings broad, blackened ; discal cell very broad, cross- 

 bar curved ; vein 5 very faint. 



We have but one species. 



1. D. rubiginea, Schif. — Expanse If to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings truncate, smooth, orange-ochreous, abundantly dusted 

 with orange-red, and with black ; a black central spot and a 

 row of black dots along the hind margin being well marked ; 

 cilia also spotted. Hind wings black-brown with red cilia. 



Antennae of the male thick, notched, thickly ciliated in 

 fine tufts, red-brown ; palpi strongty tufted, pointed, red- 

 brown ; eyes black-brown ; head densely tufted, pale fulvous 



