TRIFID.E. 27:; 



stripe greenish-yellow ; head, dorsal plate, under surface and 

 legs rather paler than the back ; a broad dorsal and narrow 

 subdorsal stripe tinged with black, but at the beginning of 

 each segment quite black. 



Or, the whole of the back between the subdorsal lines 

 brilliant deep citron-yellow ; below this to the spiracles of 

 the same ground colour, but almost entirely suffused with 

 dark red ; head, dorsal plate and anal segment also suffused 

 with red ; dorsal stripe broad, composed of two cod fluent red 

 lines with blunt red arrow-heads at the beginning and end 

 of each segment, margined in front with short black streaks ; 

 subdorsal line black and interrupted in the middle of each 

 segment ; under surface greenish with a large red blotch 

 along the sides above the legs, the latter being orange-red. 

 In this, as in all the previous variations, the spiracles are 

 white placed in lunate black blotches. (W. Buckler.) 



November to June on Galium mollugo and other low plants, 

 and on fine grasses, but in confinement will feed willingly 

 upon hawthorn, dock, and chickweed ; feeding at night, 

 resting on the stems of grass or low plants in the day- 

 time. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



The moth doubtless hides in the daytime among herbage, 

 it seems never to be observed at that time. At dusk it flies 

 and comes readily to the attraction of sugar, ivy-bloom, 

 ragwort blossom and to the flowers of the Arhutus : also in 

 hot autumns, when the blackberries are very sweet, it joins the 

 other autumn nodticc in feasting upon them, the tongue 

 being thrust between the sections of the fruit to penetrate it. 

 Never apparently very common in the south, though found 

 in various parts of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset; 

 rarely in Sussex and Surrey ; very rarely in Norfolk ; more 

 frequently in Hunts, Cambs, Northamptonshire, Gloucester- 

 shire ; scarce in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, more local in 

 Yorkshire ; common in Cumberland and Westmoreland, and 



