.■' TRIFID^. ; i8i 



Little or nothing is 'known, 'of felie habits of this moth in 

 this country. The only reliable specimens appear to have 

 been taken on the coast of the Isle of Wight. The first was 

 recorded by the late Mr. il. Donbleday in the Zoologist, 

 1858, as having been captured in the previous summer by 

 Mr, F. Bond at Freshwater, Isle of Wight. A second 

 specimen was captured, within a few yards of the same spot, 

 on August 23, 1859, by Mr. R. McLachlan. Both were 

 secured at sugar. Another was reported in 1876 as seen in 

 the possession of a collector at the same place. This is 

 believed to be in the late Mr. Bond's collection, now at Dover. 

 Two or three, other specimens exist in one of our largest 

 collections, biit have no definite histories. 



Abroad it is a Mediterranean species and attached to low- 

 lying coasts. Found in Southern Germany, Southern 

 France, North Italy, Dalmatia, Northern and Eastern Turkey, 

 Southern Russia and Asia Minor. 



. 5. H. pisi, L. — Expanse -If to If inch. Fore wings 

 purple-brown or purple-red, usually marbled with richer tones 

 of the same ; subterminal line bright yellow, expanding into 

 a conspicuous blotch at the anal angle ; hind wings smoky- 

 white with a broad smoky-brown band. 



- Antennae of the male finely notched, rather densely 

 ciliated, reddish ; palpi small, strongly tufted, purple-red ; 

 head similar ; collar of the same colour with a double central 

 bar, not very distinct, of paler and darker purple -red ; thorax 

 also rich purple-red, crested at the top and back, the crests 

 and shoulder-lappets tipped with white ; fascicles^ small, dirty 

 white ; abdomen glossy pale purple-red, its dorsal ridge 

 ornamented with from three to five oblique blackish crests; 

 lateral and anal tufts spreading, - deeper- rich purple-red 

 mixed with paler. Fore wings rather nai-row; costa gently 

 curved i; apex suddenly rounded; hind margin oblique and 

 regularly curved but faintly crenulated;- dorsal margin very 

 slightly hollowed and gracefully curved in at the base ; 



