374 LEPIDOPTERA. 



short spines so closely pressed together as to look like a 

 single one with a small fork at its tip. The skin seems to be 

 unusually thick and strong, and is lined iuside with a white 

 membrane. In a slight cocoon in the ground. In this con- 

 dition through the winter. 



The moth hides in the daytime among the leaves of bushes, 

 its food-plants especially, and may readily be beaten out, 

 when it flies vigorously. Its natural time of flight, however, 

 is at dusk, and doubtlessly again late at night, since it will 

 come to a strong light. 



An exceedingly local species and usually scarce ; apparently 

 confined to woods. Not very scarce in the New Forest and 

 the Isle of Wight, and found rather frequently in Kent, 

 especially in the small woods which crown or skirt the hills 

 near the coast. Formerly it was common at Coombe Wood, 

 Surrey, but has long disappeared from that locality ; rare in 

 Sussex and Middlesex, less so in Dorset and Devon ; very 

 rare in Suffolk, and only once taken — by Dr. A. W. Carlier 

 — in Norfolk. Further north it has been found near Winder- 

 mere, in Westmoreland ; but apparently not be} r ond. In 

 Wales it is recorded only at Neath, Glamorganshire, by Sir 

 J. T. D. Llewellyn ; and not in Ireland. 



Abroad it has a wide range throughout Central Europe, 

 the northern half of Italy. Dalmatia, Livonia. Finland. Central 

 and Eastern llussia, Bithynia. Armenia. Tartar y, Japan, 

 China, and even Vancouver Island in North America. 



2. M. notata, L. — Expanse \\ to 1\ inch. Fore wings 

 excavated below the apex ; yellowish-white, dusted with light 

 brown ; three yellow-brown transverse lines arise from 

 reddish-brown costal spots ; beyond is another costal spot, 

 large, squared, chocolate colour ; and beneath it a darker 

 spot, distinctly divided into five sections by white lines, 

 Hind wings faintly dusted and barred with pale brown. 



Antennas of the male rather short, notched, light brown; 

 palpi very small, yellow-brown, as is the head ; neck paler 



