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Pupa thick, yellow-brown, in the earth among the roots of 

 its food-plant. (Hofmann.) 



Nothing, or next to nothing, is known here of the habits 

 of the moth. The first record of its occurrence in this 

 country was in 1873, of two specimens iu the collection of 

 the Rev. Henry Burney, the origin of one of which was 

 doubtful, but of the other the statement of the owner was as 

 follows : " It was picked out from an old collection made 

 years ago by a boy at school, and its rarity never suspected 

 until I looked over the insects and discovered the little 

 stranger, which was placed in my cabinet under another 

 (erroneous) name. The boy in question was in the habit of 

 collecting during the holidays upon the South Coast, and as 

 he had no opportunity of getting insects from abroad or 

 from dealers there seems no reason to doubt the genuineness 

 of the specimen." These two examples are now in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. P. M. Bright at Bournemouth. Another was 

 captured by Mr. J. Moore at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in 

 June 1872. He says: "I took it in a cornfield close to the 

 cliffs. A friend and I were in search of another species at 

 the time, and at first I thought it a Tortrix and took little 

 notice of it, but put it among my unset insects. A friend 

 looking over them after my return pointed this one out to 

 me, and I relaxed and set it, and exhibited it at a meeting of 

 the Haggerstone Entomological Society as parva." I have 

 seen this specimen, and found it to be without question the 

 present species. This is confirmed by Mr. Eustace R. Banks, 

 in whose possession the insect now is. I know of no other 

 instances of its occurrence in these islands. Abroad it is 

 found in the South of Sweden, South of France, Germany r 

 Hungary, Switzerland, Livonia, and Southern Russia. 



