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The moth is a quiet little species, loving to buzz and flit 

 m the sunshine about open wood paths among the coarse 

 herbage, the grassy damp spots on heaths and downs, boggy- 

 places, coast sandhills, rough meadows, and even lanes 

 where the herbage is strong and thick. Also not absent 

 from hill and mountain sides. It evidently flies by choice 

 in the sunshine, and will come buzzing to one's very feet in 

 a sheltered sunny wood-path ; but seems to settle on grass 

 and other herbage and not upon flowers. It certainly also 

 flies at night, since it may occasionally be found attracted by 

 a strong light. Formerly to be found close to the suburbs 

 of London, whence it has now disappeared. Apparently 

 distributed in suitable spots over the whole of England, and 

 in many parts common or even plentiful ; also frequent in 

 woods and on the more sheltered parts of heaths in South 

 Wales to Pembrokeshire. Found, sometimes commonly, in 

 the southern portions of Scotland to Aberdeen, Moray, 

 Perthshire, and Argyle. In Ireland common and widely 

 distributed, plentiful in the bogs of Kerry and Galway, and 

 to be found so far north as Slieve Donard in County Down, 

 and Belfast. Abroad it inhabits the whole of Continental 

 Europe, except the coldest regions, also Asia Minor, Eastern 

 Siberia, and the mountain regions of Central Asia. 



Genus 97. ANARTA. 



Antennas ciliated ; eyes hairy, with short thick lashes, 

 which sometimes are hidden among the other scales ; head 

 hairy ; thorax stout, crested at both top and back ; abdomen 

 moderately stout, with erect or depressed crests ; fore wings 

 small and blunt; hind wings small, but the cell wide and 

 the cross-bar long and angulated but weak ; vein 5 very 

 slender, arising just below the middle. 



Larv,e rather short and thick, smooth, brightly coloured ; 

 the anterior portion of the body bent under in repose. 

 Feeding exposed. 



