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thorax, and the anal tip secured by a fan-like spread of fine 

 hooks at the extremity, which is fixed in the silk lining. 

 In pupa from three to four weeks. (Buckler.) 



Not a very lively species, though swift in its movements 

 when disturbed. Attached generally to damp spots with 

 rather tall soft grasses, the slopes of hills, marshy valleys, 

 damp spots near the sea, and especially the broad rides of 

 woods and moist places in wooded districts. Yet it is 

 not generally common in the fen districts. Plentiful in 

 suitable places in the southern half of England and in Wales, 

 yet local, and singularly liable to disappear, suddenly and 

 mysteriously, from places in which it has previously been 

 abundant. A striking instance of this is furnished by Mr. 

 H. D. Sykes: '•! found it in the year 1888 in great abund- 

 ance in a field near Enfield, Middlesex, and in 1889 it was 

 equally plentiful ; but for the last two years I have not seen 

 a specimen, although I repeatedly visited the locality. Its 

 disappearance is quite unaccountable. I have not exter- 

 minated it, as I took very few." It is local but not scarce 

 in Norfolk, common in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, 

 and found locally throughout the Midlands ; common at 

 Delamere Forest and in other localities in Cheshire ; fairly 

 so in several places in Yorkshire, and found at Silverdale in 

 North Lancashire, which is probably its most northei-n 

 locality in these islands. It is reported to have formerly 

 occurred near Edinburgh, but Dr. Buchanan White thinks 

 the record extremely doubtful. In Ireland it has been found 

 near Cork, and at Powerscourt in the County Wicklow. 

 Abroad its range is very wide. Lang says, " both in plains 

 and at some elevation in the mountains in Southern and 

 Central Europe, Scandinavia. Northern Africa, Asia Minor, 

 Syria,. Armenia, Persia, and North America. ' 



2. H. Liineola, Ochs. — Expanse, \\ inch. Glossy fulvous 

 edged with blackish ; tips of antennje black beneath. 



Costa of fore wings straight from beyond the shoulder, but 



