294 LEPIDOPTERA. 



vegetable substance may be attacked in the absence of dead 

 leaves. 



Pupa rather long and slender ; thorax and wing-covers 

 deep red, or red-brown suffused with black ; abdomen red or 

 red-brown with a central black dorsal line ; tip of the abdo- 

 men rather rounded and furnished with several curly-topped 

 spines ; general surface sculptured with fine punctures and 

 almost without gloss, except at the segmental divisions, 

 which are rather shining. In a very slight cocoon of silk 

 and morsels of rubbish on the ground, or in any suitable 

 corner. I have found it spun up in a chink of the bark of 

 an oak-tree, quite visible through its slight cocoon. 



The moth is attached to open woods and hides in the day 

 in thick bushes, apparently much preferring large sallows. 

 From these it is readily disturbed, and when beaten out flies 

 wildly to some distance to hide in a similar place. Its 

 voluntary flight is at dusk and in the night, and it does not 

 seem to be much attracted by sugar or light. 



Common in suitable woods in Surrey, Kent, and Sussex ; 

 scarce in Dorset, not common in Devon, apparently absent 

 from Cornwall, and rare in Somerset ; otherwise to be found 

 throughout the South of England and the Eastern Counties, 

 also in Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Stafford- 

 shire, Leicestershire, and even locally in Yorkshire; but I 

 find no record for any other part of the United Kingdom. 

 Possibly this is only for want of observation, since this 

 species and many of its allies have been here classed among 

 the Micro-hpidoptcra, and therefore by many entomologists 

 disregarded. 



Abroad it is widely distributed through Central Europe, 

 the temperate portions of Northern Europe, Italy, Turkey, 

 Southern Russia, and Asia Minor. 



3. H. tarsipennalis, TV. — Expanse 1| to 1] inch. 

 Body slender, palpi long, thin, recurved ; fore wings smooth, 



