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under moss, or under a dead leaf on the ground ; spun closely 

 to this covering. In this state through the winter. 



The moth hides during the day in bushes, sitting on the 

 underside of a leaf, and may be beaten out with the greatest 

 ease, when it flies sluggishly to a similar shelter close at 

 hand. At early dusk it flies voluntarily but is always gentle 

 and slow in its movements, and may easily be caught in the 

 hand. After dusk it sits about on the undergrowth and may 

 constantly be seen by the aid of a lantern. I have even 

 found it sitting on the upper leaves of tall reeds, in company 

 with common Noctucc. Most plentiful in open woods, but 

 found also along hedges about lanes and fields. Apparently 

 rather local in Cornwall, but otherwise abundant throughout 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, and in Scotland to Moray and 

 the Hebrides, if not beyond. 



Its variety rotundaria seems to be scarcely so widely dis- 

 tributed, and is perhaps most frequent in the Eastern Counties, 

 but has been twice reared, in Ireland, from larva? found near 

 Dublin and in Mayo; and once captured on the wing in 

 Scotland. It is also recorded from Germany. The typical 

 insect is widely distributed through Central and Northern 

 Europe, Northern Italy, Corsica, the Balkan States, Southern 

 Russia and Eastern Siberia. 



2. C. exanthemaria, Scop. — Expanse 1 to 1] inch. 

 Wings broad and rounded, white, much dusted with pale 

 yellow-brown ; fore wings with three, and hind wings with 

 two, faint curved yellow-brown transverse lines. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with solid, oblique, ciliated 

 teeth to near the apex, the final portion being notched, 

 brownish-white ; palpi minute, white ; tongue well developed ; 

 head smooth, white ; thorax and abdomen dull white, smooth 

 except for the long scales on the shoulder-lappets; lateral 

 and anal tufts of the abdomen small. Fore wings broad and 

 blunt; costa arched; apex extremely bluntly angulated, 

 almost rounded ; hind margin perpendicular to the middle, 



