228 LEPIDOPTERA. 



recorded the capture, near Ipswich, of two more specimens, 

 sheltering on pine trees, in crevices of the bark. More 

 recently there is another record of a specimen found sitting 

 upon Viper's bugloss, and it is probable that this plant is 

 selected as being a particularly rough, strong, and con- 

 spicuous plant in the sandy tract which this species princi- 

 pally frequents. Possibly, moreover, it, like many other 

 Nodiw',, is attracted at night by the blossoms of the Echium. 

 Apparently confined, with us, to that portion of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk known as the Breck-sands — Bury St. Edmunds, 

 Tuddenham, Thetford, Brandon, Eriswell, Elvedon, and Ick- 

 lingham. I know of no record elsewhere in the United 

 Kingdom. Abroad it is found over the greater part of 

 Central Europe, the South of France, North of Italy, Dal- 

 matia, Southern Russia, Eastern and Southern Siberia, and 

 Asia Minor. 



2. D. carpophaga, Bhh. — Expanse 1^ to If inch. 

 Fore wings pale yellow-brown, faintly rippled with darker 

 brewn (but varying through various shades of yellow- 

 umbreous to dark brown and black) stigmata, a spot on 

 the dorsal margin, and a clouded hind marginal band, whitish- 

 ochreous, but varying in the darker forms ; hind wings 

 yellowish- white, with a broad yellow-grey marginal band 

 (also varying darker). 



Antennae of the male notched throughout like a saw, each 

 notch bearing a tuft of minute bristles, reddish-brown in 

 front, yellow-brown at the back ; palpi very short, thickly 

 tufted, yellow-brown ; tongue conspicuously red-brown ; head 

 yellow-brown, densely tufted, having small cup-shaped tufts 

 at the bases of the antennse, and a prominent mass of 

 scales between them ; thorax yellow-brown much dusted 

 with white and the collar faintly barred in front with richer 

 brown ; shoulder-lappets striped with the same ; the crests 

 on the top and back faintly tipped with dark brown ; fas- 

 cicles yellowish-white ; abdomen smooth, pale yellow brown ; 



