14 LEPIDOFTERA. 



The nuttli hides itself cliiriiiL^' tlu" earlier part 'o'i the day in 

 hedges, tliick bushes, clmnps of iv-y, and among herbage, but 

 in hot weather Hies in an exceedingl}' lively manner along 

 liedges in the afternoon sunshine, especially frequenting those 

 in which bramble is abundantly in blossom. This day flight 

 is voluntary and frequent, and several individuals may often 

 be seen busily occupied along the same hedge ; the result 

 being that they very rapidly become worn. At night it again 

 Hies, and then is strongly attracted by blossoms of ragwort, 

 and of rush, and also in some small degree by sugar. 



Common in most jiarts of the South of England, but verv 

 local in Cornwall, yet found in the Scilly Isles; plentiful in 

 the eastern counties and in the (Cambridge fen district ; very 

 much scarcer in the Midland counties ; indeed 1 have but a 

 single record in A\'arwickshire, where one specimen has been 

 taken at Kr.owle by ^Ir. R. C. Bradley, and in North Stafford- 

 shire, where Mr. Woodforde has taken a solitary individual. 

 It is however found in Herefordshire, in Cheshire and.Lanca- 

 shire near the coast, in several places in Yorkshire, and rarely 

 in Liricolnshire. This appears to be the extent of its range 

 northward. In AV'ales I have found it. rarely, in Pembroke- 

 shire, and it can hardly be absent from the other southern 

 counties. lu Ireland it is common near the coast, occurring 

 at Howth. Dublin, Wicklow, Waterford. Cork, in Louth and 

 Westmeath. and even so far north as Antrim. Abroad its 

 range appears to be somewhat restricted — France, Belgium, 

 Holland. ^Vestern Germany, Corsica, and Dalmatia. 



I. T. orbona, Fnh., comes, Sfamf. Oaf. — Expanse H to 1| 

 inch. Fore wings broad, yellow-drab to red-brown or black- 

 brown, no black spot before the apex ; hind wings yellow, 

 with narrow black border and blackish central lunule. 



Antennie of the male simple, slender, pale brown ; palpi 

 pointed, thickly tufted, pale bi'own, with the tips darker ; head 

 and thorax rather smooth, pale yellowish-brown or drab ; 

 fascicles brown ; abdomen rather long and a little flattened. 



