TRTFID/E. 



distinct, but the spiracular stripe is white and very conspi- 

 cuous. (C. Fenn.) 



September to May on sallow, dock, chickweed, primrose, 

 plantain, and other low-growing plants ; feeding at night 

 and hitliug among dead leaves on the ground in the daytime. 

 In confinement it will eat slices of potato and carrot, and if 

 kept sufficiently warm will feed on through the winter, and 

 assume the imago state before the spring. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



The moth is rarely seen by day. It doubtless hides among 

 dead leaves and herbage on the ground. It flies at dusk and 

 comes to sugar, also to blossoms of the wood-sage, ragwort, 

 and even sunflower, and late at night will come occasionally 

 to a sti'ong light. Apparently confined to woods, and more 

 particularly to those which are rather free from undergrowth 

 except bramble which it apj)ears to favour. Very local, but 

 found commonly in some of the beech woods of Berks and 

 Oxfordshire and in the New Forest, Hants ; less frequently 

 in Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Devon, and Bucks, and widely distri- 

 buted though scarce in Cambs, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex • 

 extremely local in Yorkshire, recorded once only in Lan- 

 cashire, and Mr. Gregson has taken a single specimen at 

 Llangollen in North Wales. In Scotland rather widely dis- 

 tributed, though not common, found in the districts of the 

 Solway, Clyde, Tweed. Forth, at Moncrieff Hill and elsewhere 

 in Perthshire, and in the extensive woods of Moray. Abroad 

 it seems also to be souiewhat local in its distribution, beino- 



to 



found in Central Europe, Northern Italy, and Livonia. 



10. N. brunnea. i^rt7>.— Expanse \\ to If inch. Fore 

 wings moderately broad, rather truncate, purple-brown ; 

 reniform stigma yellow preceded by a blackish blotch ; hind 

 wings shining brownish-grey with reddish cilia. 



Antennse of the male simple, ciliated to the tip with minute 



