354 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Scotland to supply Mr. Buckler, wrote me, "the larva feeds 

 ou rank grasses on an old wall. When you turn over the 

 top stones you observe them feeding all round the edges." 



Pupa moderately stout, of the usual form ; close below the 

 ends of the wing-covers the abdomen begins gradually to 

 taper, and there the two free segments are more deeply 

 cut than those behind them ; the tip has a blunt prolonga- 

 tion furnished with a central pair of straight pointed spines, 

 and farther apart, outside them, another pair, thinner, shorter, 

 and curved a little outwards ; the colour of the tip and spines 

 is black ; of all the rest deep rich red-brown, the whole 

 surface, with the exception of a narrow band of punctures 

 across the front of the more prominent abdominal rings, 

 very glossy. Assuming this state loose in the peaty soil 

 underneath the grass, without making any cocoon whatever. 

 (W. Buckler.) 



Doubtless the moth hides by day among grass on the 

 ground or in chinks of rocks. It flies at dusk, is strongly 

 attracted by flowers of ragwort, thistle, wild thyme, guelder- 

 rose, and Scahiosa colu7nharia ; and comes eagerly to sugar 

 dropped upon leaves of plants in its mountainous or rocky 

 haunts, flying all night, and continuing to attend at the 

 feast till morning. Mainly attached to rocky districts, both 

 on the coast and inland, and to mountains, on the latter 

 sometimes abundant. Usually a northern and western 

 species, but it has been taken rarely in Sussex ; not rarely 

 on Dartmoor, Devon, and has even been found at Devonport 

 and at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall ; also in Somerset and 

 Gloucestershire, and in Shropshire ; widely distributed in 

 Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland. In Wales it 

 is sometimes abundant on the mountains, especially those 

 of limestone formation in the neighbourhood of Llangollen ; 

 but in all probability in suitable places throughout the 

 Principality, since I have found it casually even at Pembroke. 

 In Scotland it occurs near Edinburgh, in Aberdeenshire, 



