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Pupa apparently nndescribed — subterranean. 



The moth seems to hide, in the daytime, mainly among 

 herbage or thick masses of leav^es, but may occasionally be 

 found on the trunks of trees, and in Scotland has more than 

 once been found in plenty sitting on pine trunks. It has 

 been found occasionally hidden under thatch. At night it is 

 strongly attracted by sugar, sitting quietly upon it, and may 

 thus be secured with perfect ease ; equally fond of ripe black- 

 berries when the autumn is sufficiently warm to ripen them 

 to a greater sweetness than usual ; and may even be taken at 

 blossoms of PliUw, and other flowers. Extremely uncertain 

 in its aj)pearances, one season in multitudes in its favourite 

 haunts and in moderate numbers in oak woods gener<\llv ; in 

 other seasons hardly a specimen is to be found. Confined to 

 oak woods, and open country with plenty of oak timber, and 

 in such situations found throughout the whole of England ; 

 probably also in Wales, though I have no record. In Scotland 

 rather local, but abundant in Argyleshire and Moray, and in 

 Perthshire extending up the hills to 600 feet above sea-level ; 

 also found in various parts of the Clyde Valley, and in Rox- 

 burghshire. In Ireland it was recorded by Mr. E. Birchall, 

 but doubts have been thrown on the correctness of his infor- 

 mation — yet it surely must occur. 



Abroad it has a wide range through Central, Southern, 

 and Western Europe, Sweden, Livonia, Sardinia and Corsica. 



Genns 26. CLEOCERIS. 



AntennfB pectinated, eyes naked, with long back lashes; 

 thorax small, crested at the back ; abdomen rather slender, 

 crested on the third segment ; fore wings narrow ; vein 5 of 

 the hind wings slender, curved, arising near the middle of 

 the crossbar. 



AVe have but one species. 



