386 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the Rpv. W. W. FleravTig finds tlio more typical form tinged 

 with red-brown, and with the stigmata yellow, the var. remissa 

 being there nnusually large, clouded with bright brown, and 

 the stigmata conspicuonsly yellowish-white. 

 On the wing in -Time and July. 



Larva cylindrical, of moderate and almost uniform stout- 

 ness, tapering but little at either end ; the head rounded, 

 shining, brownish-grey freckled with darker ; dorsal and 

 anal plates black, highly polished, divided by the dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines, which are almost white ; general colour 

 brownish-grey, finely striated longitudinally with a darker 

 tint of the same ; dorsal line 3'ellowish-white, uniform in tint 

 throughout, and bordered with dark grey ; subdorsal stripe 

 brownish-ochreous, but little paler than the colour of the 

 back ; spiracular stripe broad, light drab with paler edges ; 

 spiracles oval, yellowish-drab delicately outlined with black ; 

 raised dots blackish, each bearing a grey-brown hair ; under- 

 surface and legs of the same colour as the back. It possesses 

 the same distinguishing characters when young, which con- 

 tinue unchanged to its maturity. (W. Buckler.) 



August (?) to March upon PJialaris arundinacea, Triticum 

 repens, Poa annua and other grasses, more especially those 

 which grow in damp ground ; hybernating while rather small 

 at the roots of the gj-asses, hiding in the same situations 

 during the day and feeding at night. 



Pupa of the usual form, the wing-covers wrinkled and dull 

 from excessive abundance of minute incised and ridged 

 sculpture with w^hich they are covered ; dorsal segments also 

 wrinkled, and the anterior half of each of the first four simi- 

 larly sculptured in fine incised lines mingled with rougher 

 ridges and pits ; from this the remaining dorsal and abdominal 

 segments are sculptured only in pits, placed in a band which 

 becomes narrower on each till on the final two it disappears ; 

 colour dull chestnut ; cremaster black, broad and thick, and 

 furnished with a pair of slender hooked bristles ; beneath 



