1 64 LEPIDOPTERA. 



them rows of sharp hooks pointing backward, that on the 

 twelfth segment on a raised prominent ridge ; anal segment 

 blunt with a few short spikes. Colour reddish brown. 

 (Buckler.) 



In a cocoon among rubbish, as already described, or under a 

 stone, or piece of timber in a wood path. Bursting the 

 cocoon and working partly out by means of its abdominal 

 hooks before the moth emerges. 



An exceedingly swift and active species — more so even than 

 the two previous — flying, like them, at early twilight, about 

 woods, heaths, roads, hill sides and wild spots generally ; but 

 having a more northern range, and being decidedly scarce in the 

 South of England. There are records of captures, generally 

 of single specimens, in various parts of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, 

 Suffolk, and South Devon: but in the Exmoor district of 

 Devon, and on the Quantocks in Somerset, it is abundant. It 

 is also common in one spot near Maidenhead, and is found 

 occasionally in the beech woods of Bucks, Berks and Oxford- 

 shire. I have found it, though rarely, in Pembrokeshire and 

 Carmarthenshire, but have little doubt that it is common in the 

 hill districts throughout Wales, as it certainly is in those of 

 the English Midlands, being plentiful in Staffordshire and 

 Derbyshire, as well as in Herefordshire, Lancashire, and 

 Cheshire. In Leicestershire rather local, but producing 

 curious pale grey forms. In Yorkshire it is most abundant, 

 and thence throughout the North of England and all Scot- 

 land, very large and strongly marked specimens being 

 obtained in Arran and the Shetland Isles. In Ireland it also 

 seems to be generally distributed and often common, having 

 been recorded from Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Down, Donegal, 

 Antrim, and Londonderry. From the Belfast district come very 

 pretty red varieties ; others somewhat similar have been taken 

 by Mr. Morton in Lanarkshire in the South of Scotland ; and. 

 curiously enough, Mr. S. Webb reports a similar form at 

 Dover. Wherever the species occurs the variety Gallicus 



