284 LEPIDOPTERA. 



The motli liides itself upon the ground in the daytime, 

 usually among the grass, but sometimes does not even liide 

 itself, since Mr. J. W. Douglas has found it sitting on the bare 

 sandy ground without concealment. In the evening also it 

 sits on the blades of grass on sandhills and other favoured 

 localities ; but also flies, and is attracted by sugar, ivy- 

 blossom, and light. Apparently almost confined to our 

 southern coast and adjoining chalk ranges, and moderately 

 common at Deal on the sandhills ; at Brighton and Lewes, 

 where it is found on the Downs ; in the Isle of Wight ; at 

 Portland, where in some seasons it is plentiful ; in Devon, at 

 Torquay, Teignmouth, and Bolthead ; and on the coast of 

 Cornwall. The Rev. T. W. Daltry informs me of the capture 

 of a single example twenty-five years ago on a gas-lamp at 

 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, but it is difficult to imagine 

 this to have been anything more than a casual specimen from 

 the south, which may have travelled under the cover of a 

 railway truck, unless it was in the act of migration. In 

 Ireland it is recorded by the late Mr. Edwin Birchall in 

 Wicklow and Waterford, and Mr. Kane adds that it is not 

 scarce on the sandhills off Wexford Harbour. I know of no 

 other localities in the United Kingdom. Abroad it is rather 

 local, but is found in France, Corsica, Sardinia, Greece, and 

 Dalmatia. 



Genus 22. EPUNDA. 



Antenke pectinated in the male, simple in the female ; 

 each having a tuft of scales in front of the base, eyes naked ; 

 lashes small at front and back ; thorax crested at the top and 

 back ; abdomen crested on three segments ; fore wings of 

 rather even width, blunt ; hind wings rather short. 



We have but one s^jecies. 



1. E. lichenea, Hvh. — Expanse, If to If inch. Antennje 

 pectinated in the male, fore wings greenish-grey, marbled 

 with greeu, and often in a less degree with purple and white ; 



