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The moth sits in the day time on palings, tree trunks, 

 stone walls, rocks, post and rail fences, almost any conspicuous 

 objects, yet must also ver}- commonly hide at the roots of 

 herbage. Bright sunshine will sometimes provoke it to swift 

 and vigorous flight, when it will eagerly visit flowers such 

 as those of Lotus coniicitlatus ; indeed it is a very restless 

 insect. At dusk it will come freely to sugar and to attrac- 

 tive flowers such as those of Silcnc vnjlata and Illiododcndron. 

 Very widely distributed and often common, frequenting open 

 woodlands and woody heaths ; but far more plentiful in 

 rough pastures, hillsides, and open ground where flowers are 

 abundant. Found apparently all over England, Wales, and 

 Scotland, including the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetland 

 Isles. Common all over Ireland, and there more especially 

 variable. Abroad it inhabits almost the whole of Europe, 

 Asia Minor, and the mountain districts of Central Asia. 



10. H. chenopodii, Fah. ; trifolii, Stand. Cat. — Expanse 

 1|- to H inch. Fore wings pale brown, minutely and 

 abundantly rippled with darker brown and dull black ; 

 orbicular stigma usually pale ; reniform clouded with black ; 

 an obscure pale W near the hind margin ; hind wings 

 greyish-white, with broad smoky-brown border. 



Antennas of the male simple, almost naked, the cilia 

 being excessively minute, brown ; palpi bi'oadly tufted, 

 greyish brown ; apical joint not very short ; head densely 

 covered with scales, especially so between the antennse, 

 black-brown in front, pale brown above ; thorax pale umbreous 

 dotted all over with darker, and with an obscure stripe, 

 composed of blackish dots, across the collar ; faintly crested 

 on the top, more distinctly so at the back, the tufts tipped 

 with white ; fascicles smoky-white ; abdomen pale smoky- 

 brown, with one or two small blackish crests on the dorsal 

 ridge ; lateral tufts spreading ; anal tuft small. Fore wings 

 rather broadened behind ; costa very gently curved ; apex 

 suddenly rounded, almost angulated ; hind margin curved, 



