284 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



and Wales, and in the Isle of Man, Cumberland, and West- 

 moreland. In Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire it seems 

 to be local or rare. It is found up to Moray in Scotland, and is 

 sometimes plentiful in Aberdeenshire, Inverness, and Moray. 

 Very local in Ireland, but Kane says that it is found in the 

 extreme north, south, east, and west. 



The Feathered Brindle {Aporophyla austraUs). 



The fore wings are pale grey, sometimes darker clouded, 

 chiefly on the costa ; the black cross lines, slender, wavy, but 

 not always distinct ; a short black bar from middle of the 

 base and one below it on the inner margin ; often two other 

 bars, pretty much in a line with the basal ones, on the central 

 area ; a row of black wedges on the outer area, near margin. 

 Hind wings white in the male, pale brownish grey in the female. 

 Most of our specimens, perhaps all, are referable to var. pascuea^ 

 Curtis. The caterpillar is yellowish green tinged with reddish 

 above ; a pale reddish line along the middle of the back has 

 black V-shaped marks upon it, and there is a series of black 

 marks on each side ; the line along the spiracles yellowish ; 

 head green, brown freckled. Feeds, from October to April, on 

 grasses, catchfly {Silene maritima)^ etc. The moth, which is 

 figured on Plate 137, Figs. 3, 4, is out from late August to October. 



This is a local species in England and occurs on the south 

 coast ; in Kent, on the sand hills at Deal ; in Sussex, on the 

 downs at Brighton and Lewes ; also on downs on the Isle of 

 Wight. Farther west it is found at Portland in Dorset, and 

 Torquay in Devon ; thence along the Devon and Cornish 

 coasts. In Ireland it is obtained, according to Kane, on the 

 coast of Wicklow and Waterford, and is not scarce on the sand 

 hills of Wexford Harbour. 



