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cocoon of silk and dead grass-leaves or moss on the surface 

 of the ground or just beneath it. 



The moth hides in the manner of its congeners among 

 grass, dead leaves on the ground, herbage, and occasionally 

 in any snug corner of a garden wall or fence. At dusk it 

 comes to sugar, honey-dew, the sap of a bleeding tree, or to 

 raspberry and other flowers. Especially fond of open fields, 

 gardens, lanes and roadsides, and found all over the United 

 Kingdom, except perhaps a portion of the Midland counties, 

 and often abundantly, but rare in the Shetland Isles, and 

 not common in the south-west corner of South Wales. 

 Abroad it is found all over the temperate portions of 

 Northei'n Europe, Central Europe, Northern Italy, Dalmatia, 

 Southern and Eastern Russia, the mountain regions of 

 Central Asia, and Japan, where it shows hardly any variation 

 from the English type. In North America, however, it takes 

 the rather more strongly marked form, with the central 

 band and lines darker, and is known under the name of 

 finitima, Clem., occurring from New England through the 

 Northern, Eastern and Middle United States, Texas, Colo- 

 rado and Oregon, and also in Canada. 



2. A. gemina, Huh. — Expanse, 1^ to If inch. Fore 

 wings broad, dark purplish-brown, marbled with paler, the 

 first line forming a crescent from the dorsal margin to the 

 middle ; or else with the dorsal margin, stigmata and broad 

 hinder band much paler. Hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antennce of the male simple, rather short and thick, 

 minutely ciliated, dull brown; palpi broadly tufted, dark 

 brown, the apical joint almost concealed ; head and thorax 

 purple-brown, not very dark, the front of the collar crossed 

 by a dark brown line ; crests very short and obscure, but 

 their tips a little darkened ; fascicles greyish-white ; abdomen 

 purplish-brown, abundantly covered with dusky-yellow hair- 

 scales ; dorsal ridge with three or four crests tipped with 

 purple-brown ; lateral and anal tufts full and spreading, the 



