TRIFID&. H9 



finding lame on Ononis, fed them up upon the green pods of 

 the scarlet-runner (Phaseolus vulgaris). The Eev. J. Hellins 

 has placed upon record that he beat out larvae of this species 

 from birch and hazle, and reared them upon those trees. 



Pupa rather elongated, very smoothly rounded and com- 

 pact, the limb-covers closely laid down ; whole surface glossy 

 dark red-brown ; sculpture on the wing-covers very faint ; 

 segments sparingly pitted round the anterior edge ; abdomen 

 regularly tapering ; anal segment rather fully rounded ; cre- 

 master a large nipple-like projection armed with two long, 

 parallel, tapering spikes. Subterranean, enclosed in a very 

 slight fragile earthen cocoon. 



The moth is rarely seen in the daytime, doubtless it hides 

 among herbage ; at dusk it comes readily to sugar, and is 

 attracted by the blossoms of Silene inflate, Lychnis, and 

 other flowers ; occasionally it will come, later at night, to a 

 strong light. Not usually a common species, but found in 

 woods, or on chalk hills, in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, 

 Dorset, Wilts, Somerset, Berks, Oxfordshire, Herts, Cambs, 

 Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex; in Devon 

 and Cornwall more especially on the sea coast ; also found 

 in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Salop, very 

 rarely in Derbyshire, more frequently on the coasts of 

 Cheshire, Lancashire, and Cumberland, and sometimes even 

 plentifully on that of Durham ; in Yorkshire also on the 

 coast, and inland as well, but very locally. In Wales it has 

 been found on the North and South coasts ; in Scotland in 

 Berwickshire ; rather commonly on the coast of Forfar ; in 

 Perthshire ; at Forres, Moray ; and elsewhere in the districts 

 of the Solway, Tweed, Forth, Tay, and Dee. In Ireland it 

 seems to be rare, but has been taken in the counties of 

 Dublin, Wicklow, Waterford, Kerry, Galway, Sligo, and 

 Louth. Abroad it has a very wide range through Central 

 Europe, Northern Italy, Sicily, Southern Sweden, Livonia, 

 Southern Eussia, Northern Persia, Tartary, the mountainous 



