322 LEPIDOPTERA. 



eye to discover even a large full-grown larva when in an open 

 interstice of bark, in full view ; each of its changes of colour- 

 ing after becoming an external feeder being equally adapted 

 for concealment. That a moth, should be produced which has 

 another, and totally different, protective resemblance, of a 

 most deceptive character, furnishes food for much thought. 



The moth comes freely to sugar on oak-trees at dusk, sits 

 down at once and allows itself to be captured with perfect 

 indifference ; sometimes even settling to feed when the light 

 of the moon is brilliant enough to show it without the light 

 of a lantern. Probably other sweets are equally acceptable ; 

 it certainly appreciates ripe blackberries when the weather is 

 hot enough to give them their fullest flavour. Confined to 

 oak woods and open country where oaks are plentiful, and 

 in such situations abundant in the South, and not scarce 

 throughout England, yet I find no record of its occurrence 

 in Wales. In Scotland found in Roxburghshire, Lanark, 

 Ayrshire, and elsewhere in the Clyde Valley, and the districts 

 of the Tweed, Solway and Forth ; farther north it is found 

 in Perthshire and Aberdeenshire, and plentifully both in 

 Argyle and Moray. In Ireland in the County Dublin, 

 Wicklow, Tullamore, Westmeath, Cavan, Galway, Sligo, 

 Tyrone, Armagh, Antrim, Derry, and Down ; in some of 

 these districts plentifully, in others rarely. 



Abroad it has a considerable range through Central Europe, 

 South Sweden, North Italy, Sardinia, Livonia and Southern 

 and Eastern Russia. 



Genus 28. MISELIA. 



Antennae pectinated in the male ; eyes naked, but pro- 

 vided with large front and back lashes; thorax squared, 

 slightly crested at the back ; patagia large and uplifted ; 

 abdomen with four or five erect dorsal crests ; fore wings 

 broad and blunt \ vein 5 of hind wings slender, curved. 



