TRIFID&. 3 



of the stigmata and the central shade. Some individuals 

 reared at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, by Mr. F. Norgate, are 

 of a very unusual reddish -orange colour. 



On the wing in September, October, and occasionally the 

 beginning of November, and after hybernation from March till 

 May, and even later. I have seen a specimen, undoubtedly 

 old and hybernated, which was captured in July. 



Larva cylindrical, the twelfth segment slightly raised ; 

 head large, rounded and flattened in front, pinkish-brown 

 reticulated with darker ; body dull yellow, reddish-yellow, 

 dull orange, or pale yellow, irrorated with pale brown ; a 

 series of prominent V-shaped pale brown dorsal markings from 

 the fifth to the twelfth segments, and pointing backwards, is 

 intersected by an interrupted pale yellow dorsal line, and 

 frequently shaded externally with a brighter or paler tint of 

 the ground colour ; the V on the twelfth segment is abruptly 

 terminated by two lemon-coloured spots which cause it to 

 appear wedge-shaped; usual raised dots of the ground colour, 

 or paler, distinctly encircled with grey ; spiracles black, 

 each placed in a brown shade ; prolegs tinged with pink. 

 (C. Fenn.) 



April to June or the beginning of July, on oak — apparently 

 preferring oak underwood. 



Pupa highly polished, rounded, semi-transparent ; anal 

 extremity blunt, with a minute terminal bristle ; colour bright 

 orange or red-brown. In a soft compact cocoon of silk and 

 sand, on or close to the surface of the ground. In it the 

 larva remains for a considerable time before assuming the 

 pupa state. (C. Fenn.) 



This exquisitely beautiful moth conceals itself during the 

 day among dead leaves, to which it bears a close resemblance. 

 At dusk it will come to sugar, ivy-bloom, hop-blossom, ripe 

 blackberries, or rotten apples, in the autumn ; and to sallow- 

 bloom in the spring, frequenting this favoured food as long 



