246 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Very little indeed is known here of the habits of this 

 rare species. Abroad it is said to frequent dry woods and to 

 be readily disturbed in the daytime. At night it has been 

 taken at sugar and at light. The first specimen on record 

 in this county seems to have been taken by Captain Chawner 

 in the year 1832 at the lighthouse at Lowestoft, Suffolk. 

 The next was recorded by the late Mr. E. Newman as having 

 been taken in May 1860 at sugar at West Wickham, Kent. 

 On June 18th, 1873, a specimen was obtained at sugar at 

 Abbotts Wood, Sussex; and on May 28th, 1875, another in 

 the same place ; one also having been taken by similar 

 means at Brighton in June 1874. The only other British 

 specimen of which I possess any certain knowledge was taken 

 by Dr. F. D. Wheeler at light at Stratton Strawless Wood, 

 Norfolk, at the end of May 1878. In Scotland Dr. White 

 recorded the capture of an example at Perth, " evidently 

 imported." In Ireland a specimen was taken at sugar in an 

 oak coppice close to the Tower Lodge at Killarney, Kerry, 

 in 1864, by the late Peter Bouchard, but Mr. E. Birchall 

 stated that two were secured in this locality. In Spain 

 Mr. J. J. Walker has found the larva commonly upon oak 

 bushes in the cork woods. The range of this species is 

 through Central and Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and 

 Asia Minor. 



Genus 2. CATOCALA. 



Antennas long, finely ciliated, slender ; palpi short and 

 blunt ; eyes naked and without lashes ; thorax broad, smooth, 

 flatly crested at the back ; abdomen very round, smooth, and 

 tapering, with small depressed dorsal tufts. Fore wings 

 broad, strong, and very ample ; hind wings large, brilliantly 

 coloured ; vein 5 uniting with vein 4 at the cross-bar, 

 strong and equal to the rest at the hind margin. All the 

 wings crenulated behind. 



Larvae elongated, flattened beneath, and there spotted 



