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on lettuce, and that one went to earth in November, but that 

 no moth emerged. In accordance with his strict rule he did 

 not place the figures which he took of these larvae with those 

 which he had fully worked out, and although careful search 

 has been made among his drawings in the possession of the 

 Ray Society these cannot be found. He states, however, 

 that the larva is remarkably like that of Apamca hasilinca, 

 and this statement has been confirmed by the circumstance 

 that the Rev. H. H. Crewe, long ago, reared a specimen 

 from a larva which he could not distinguish from that of 

 A. hasilinca. 



Apparently from July to probably March or April, on 

 grasses, but too little is really known of its habits to admit 

 of a positive statement. 



Pupa undescribed. 



The moth hides in the daytime on the ground among 

 herbage, or under any sufficient concealment, sometimes even 

 in thatch, but has been known in intensely hot weather to 

 fly to flowers in the sunshine. At dusk it flies freely, comes 

 readily to sugar and to blossoms of Silene infiata and other 

 flowers. 



Moderately common throughout the southern half of 

 England, becoming very rare in the Northern Midlands, yet 

 in some years abundant in Lancashire, Cheshire and Durham, 

 and widely distributed in Yorkshire. Perhaps on the whole 

 most common toward the coast. Also probably throughout 

 South Wales, since it is not rare in Pembrokeshire. In 

 Scotland it is found in the Clyde Valley, locally in the 

 eastern districts to Moray, and much more rarely inland to 

 Perthshire and Inverness ; also present in the Shetland Isles. 

 In Ireland the only specimen observed appears to be one 

 which I took at Malahide, near Dublin, on July 4, 1860. 

 This example, which is still in my possession, is quite 

 unusually pale in colour. Abroad its range is rather more 

 southern — Central Europe, Northern Italy, South Sweden, 



