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bilberry, heather, or bramble in the shadow of a tree trunk, 

 or under the edge of the bank of a hollow wood-path among 

 the loose roots ; when disturbed it slips away in an artful 

 manner along the shadows, to which its dark colouring so 

 closely assimilates it, to hide again among hollies or any other 

 thick bushes that may be available. The female is not so 

 cautious, but sits plainly visible, head downwards, usually 

 upon the trunk of a Scotch fir or other tree, but is there 

 greatly protected by its wonderful resemblance to a small 

 dead leaf of pointed ivy. It flies freely at dusk, and will 

 come occasionally to sugar. A very local species, and mainly 

 restricted to fir woods with an undergrowth of whortleberry, 

 but found in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Devon, 

 Cornwall, Somerset, and Staffordshire, also rarely in Worces- 

 tershire and Suffolk. It is recorded in North Wales, but 

 not in Scotland. Rather widely distributed in Ireland — 

 common at Killarney and Kenmare in Kerry, and recorded 

 from Waterford, Galway, Carrick on Shannon, Lough Foyle, 

 and Deny. 



Abroad its range seems to be limited to Central Europe, 

 the temperate portions of Northern Europe, and Northern 

 Italy. 



Genus 9. HYPENA. 



Antennas minutely ciliated ; palpi long, curved up, and 

 densely tufted ; eyes naked, without lashes ; head promi- 

 nently tufted in front ; thorax smooth ; abdomen slender, 

 furnished with one or two small crests; legs normal; fore 

 wings broadly trigonate ; hind wings ample. 



LarVjG cylindrical, rather slender, having fourteen well 

 developed feet ; on herbaceous plants. 



Pup^e in a silken cocoon among leaves. 



We have two species, easily recognised, since H. probosci- 

 dalis is of nearly double the size of H. rostralis, and has much 

 more pointed fore wings. 



