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blooming heather. It has also been found, rarely, sitting on 

 the sand. It flies more particularly at dusk, and then fre- 

 quents blossoms of clover, Silcnc inflata, Gcntranthvs ruber, 

 and other plants, and will even come to sugar ; but for some 

 unexplained reason is rarely seen in the moth state, although 

 in some seasons its larvas have been found in considerable 

 abundance. The late Mr. J. J. Heading recorded that in the 

 years 1853-4, on the Cornish coast and that of Devon, 

 hundreds, or even thousands, of the larvae were to be found 

 on Ononis spinosa, but there is no record that many moths 

 were seen. Usually a rare species, but long known as an 

 inhabitant of this country ; indeed, Donovan recorded its 

 capture by himself, in a lane near Tottenham, Middlesex, 

 in 1793 ; and, as already stated, most frequent in Devon and 

 Cornwall ; but also recorded in the Scilly Isles, Dorset, Hants, 

 Sussex, Kent, once each in Surrey, Herts, and Gloucester- 

 shire ; also in Somerset, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire ; 

 several times in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk, and 

 rarely in Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Durham. In 

 Wales it has been taken near Neath and along the Glamorgan- 

 shire coast ; and at Pembroke my eldest son secured a single 

 specimen flying about red valerian on a railway embank- 

 ment. 



In Scotland the only record that I can find is that by Dr. 

 Chapman of a specimen taken in Ayrshire. In Ireland it 

 has been met with near Cork and Wicklow. Like the last 

 species, it has an immense range abroad ; through Central, 

 Southern, and Western Europe, Southern Germany, Hungary, 

 Switzerland ; Asia Minor, Armenia, Persia, with the Taurus 

 Mountains, Kertch, the Himalayas ; Madeira, the Canaries ; 

 the Barbary States — most abundant in Morocco — Egypt, 

 South Africa, and New Zealand. 



3. H. dipsacea, L. — Expanse \\ to If inch. Eore wings 

 yellow-drab or reddish-drab, with olive clouding and a red- 

 brown central band. Hind wings yellowish-white with a 



