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finenient it will eat various shrubs, mint, and garden flowers. 

 Hoffmann adds whortlebeny, raspberry, and golden-rod. It 

 hybernates while rather small, and maybe kept alive easily by 

 sleeving it out upon a shoot of ivy, which it will occasionally 

 gnaw. It continues to feed for a rather long time, yet is 

 easy to rear. 



Pupa rather gracefully formed, elongated, a little flattened 

 in front, wing-covers rather thickened but unsculptured, 

 dull black ; limb and antenna-cases of the same colour, the 

 latter sculptured with indications of the pectinations ; dorsal 

 plate smoky-brown, smooth ; dorsal segments chestnut, 

 minutely pitted in a scattered manner ; abdominal segments 

 also chestnut, pitted more extensively, except at the posterior 

 margins, with minute punctures ; cremaster rather flattened 

 and drawn out to a point, terminated by a very strong curved 

 spine and attendant curled bristles. In a thin white silken 

 cocoon, among leaves. The hooks of the cremaster are 

 entangled firmly in the silk, and the pupa wriggles and 

 turns with extreme activity therein when disturbed. 



The moth frequents woods, especially those which abound 

 in undergrowth, among which it hides during the day ; yet 

 may often be beaten out, when it hurries away to some similar 

 retreat. Soon after sunset the male flies of its own accord, 

 vigorously, over the bushes, and especially along open wood- 

 rides, and continues on the wing till dusk, or on favourable 

 nights till 10 or 11 P.M., but apparently not later at night, 

 nor in the morning ; the female being less active, and flying 

 a little later. At one time it was frequent in the woods 

 which now have disappeared, giving place to the outer 

 suburbs of London. Still, it is quite common in the woods 

 of Kent — whence the most richly coloured forms are usually 

 obtained — and in Sussex, Surrey. Hants, Dorset, Wilts, 

 Berks, Middlesex, and Essex. Also found in the woods 

 which edge Dartmoor, and elsewhere in Devon, in East Corn- 

 wall, Somerset. Gloucestershire. Herefordshire, and Worcester- 



