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this the anal formation is rather distinct. Tn a coarse cocoon 

 among grass roots. 



The moth hides in the daytime among dense rank grasses 

 gi-owing in damp places, especially in the sides of woods and 

 damp meadows near them ; at night it is far more strongly 

 attracted by the blossoms of these grasses than by sugar, 

 though it will come to that bait in moderate numbers. It 

 also loves honeydew, the blossoms of Rhododendron, Silene, 

 Uchium, and other flowers. Found apparently all over Eng- 

 land in such suitable places, and often abundantly ; more 

 local in the fens ; also in Wales to Pembrokeshire ; and in 

 many parts of Scotland, extending to the Orkneys and 

 Hebrides ; and common everywhere in Ireland. Abroad its 

 range is very wide, but principally more southern — the 

 gi-eater part of Central Europe, Finland, South Sweden, 

 North Italy, Southern and Eastern Russia, Tartary, the 

 mountain regions of Central Asia, the North of India — quite 

 typical in the Himalayas, and with it the var. rcmissa. This 

 latter form is also sharply marked in North America, where 

 the species, there called sejiamns, is common in the Eastern 

 and Middle United States, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. 



3. A. unanimis, Tr. — Expanse 1^ inch. Fore wings 

 pale chestnut-brown, very regularly mottled with darker; 

 two short black streaks at the base : reniform stierma edsred 

 with white ; hind wings pale smoky-brown, central spot and 

 hinder region darker. 



Antennse of the male regularly notched in front, thickly 

 ciliated, dark brown ; palpi broadly tufted, dark brown outside, 

 pale yellow-brown within, third joint rather thick and por- 

 rected ; head densely tufted, yellow-broAvn, dusted with white, 

 and the longer scales tipped with black ; a black spot on each 

 side of the face; collar very thick and erect, yellow-brown, 

 almost golden-brown at the base, dusted with white, black, and 

 dark brown, and having across the middle a slender black 

 bar; remainder of thorax chocolate-brown dusted with paler, 



