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The habits of this species in the imago state appear to be 

 unknown. Although the larva is to be found in some plenty 

 in very restricted localities, the moth seems hardly ever to 

 be seen at large either in the daytime or at night. The 

 only record of its capture which has come under my notice is 

 that of a single specimen " taken in a garden at Rathowen, 

 Westmeath, by Mrs. Battersby." But the larva is recorded 

 by Donovan as having been found upon wormwood in or 

 about 1780 in Bunhill Fields, which is now a densely popu- 

 lated portion of London ! Its usual haunts, however, are on 

 rocky portions of the sea-coast counties, especially in the 

 South-West and West. The only exception that I know of is 

 a very restricted locality on the coast of Suffolk. It is not 

 rare in the Isle of Wight and in some seasons is plentiful 

 at the Isle of Portland, though scarce on other parts of the 

 Dorset coast. In Devon sometimes abundant at Plymouth, 

 Dartmouth, and other parts of the South coast ; also on the 

 North coast, and on that of Somerset ; in Cornwall it appears 

 to be less frequent. In South Wales I have found it freely 

 in the farm-yards and waste places of the farms nearest 

 the coast cliffs of Pembrokeshire ; in North Wales it is 

 recorded from Barmouth and Dolgelly. With the exception 

 of the single specimen already alluded to as taken in West- 

 meath, Ireland, this is the extent of its known range in 

 these Islands. Abroad it is found through France, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Hungary, South Sweden, Livonia, Bulgaria, large 

 portions of Russia, and the mountainous regions of Central 

 Asia. 



7. C. abrotani, Fab. ; artemesise, Stand. Cat. — 

 Expanse 1| inch. Fore wings narrow and pointed; pale 

 silvery-grey, with a browner shading ; transverse lines angu- 

 lated and zigzagged; upper stigmata pale, edged with 

 black. Hind wings yellowish- white clouded with light 

 smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, naked, light brown ; palpi 



