TRIFID&. 6g 



June and the beginning of July on the seeds and flowers 

 of Scrophularia nodosa. Doubtless also on those of S. aquatica 

 and Vcrbascum. 



With reference to the lame figured, Mr. Buckler wrote to 

 me twenty years ago : " I have four figures of as many larvae ; 

 they vary a little, but are all very different from those of C. 

 verbasci or C. lychnitis. The larvae were given me by Mr. 

 Doubleday in 1867. The only locality that I have knowledge 

 of is in the neighbourhood of Tuddenham, where Mr. Wratis- 

 law found them, but I think only once. It is a very rare 

 species, certainly the rarest British one of the genus ; the 

 middle to the end of June is the time for the larva, which 

 feeds on Scrophularia nodosa growing on banks in dry places. 

 I only reared one moth ; the other pupae remained over one 

 season after another till they dried up." 



Pupa yellow-brown. Not more fully described. In an 

 earthen cocoon. 



So far as I am aware this very rare species has never been 

 observed in this country in the moth state. All the few 

 known British specimens have been reared from larvae, almost 

 all of them found in the Eastern Counties ; Mr. Doubleday's 

 larvae, of which he sent four to Mr. Buckler and reared some 

 himself, were, as already stated, obtained at Tuddenham, 

 Suffolk. In 1878 several were reared by Dr. F. D. Wheeler 

 from larvae found by him in Norfolk, I think at no great 

 distance from Norwich, and previously a few by the Rev. 

 H. Williams from larvae found near Thetford. Other 

 records are from Lakenheath, Bury, Higham and elsewhere 

 in Suffolk. In the collection of the late Mr. F. Bond 

 is a series of what he considered to be this species, reared 

 from larvae found by him in Cambridgeshire, but they are 

 most unsatisfactorily like C. verbasci (as also are most of 

 the specimens sent from abroad under this name — hence 

 much confusion). Mr. C. W. Dale records the present species 

 as very rare in Dorset, but I have not seen the specimens. 



