330 LEPIDOP TERA . 



dappled with dark brown ; body brown ; legs dark brown, 

 dusted above with whitish ; the first pair densely tufted with 

 long scales. 



Antennae of the female minute, slightly toothed, brown ; 

 head and thorax blackish, thinly covered with light brown 

 scales ; abdomen very large and clumsy, ovate, grey-brown, 

 covered thinly, but more thickly at the edges of the segments, 

 with pale brown scales ; wings merely short, soft, useless brown 

 flaps of about one-eighth of an inch in length — quite function- 

 less ; legs dark brown. 



The male is hardly variable except in the intensity of the 

 dark markings of the fore wings. These, in the south of 

 England, are usually faint, the moth being almost of a uniform 

 rust-colour excepting the white spot ; towards the north they 

 become darker, the markings much more distinct, and the 

 transverse lines sometimes quite black. Extremely well- 

 marked specimens and of rather large size are obtained in 

 Yorkshire and in some parts of Scotland, more especially 

 Sutherlandshire. In Mr. C. A. Briggs' collection is a paler 

 and much more yellow specimen, but this variation is extremely 

 rare. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher has one in which the white 

 spot is of double the usual size, infringing upon the second 

 transverse line and leaning toward the anal angle. At a 

 meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society in 1892 un extraordinary gynandrous specimen was 

 exhibited ; the head with antennae were male ; the wings 

 small, sharply pointed and rather longer than is usual in the 

 female ; the body wholly female. Mr. C. A. Briggs has one 

 somewhat similar, but the antennae are not so well developed 

 as in ordinary males, and the flap-like fore wings show a faint 

 trace of the white spot. 



July to September ; and in rare instances specimens of a 

 partial second generation appear in October. 



Lakva. Head round, rather small ; body thickened to near 

 the middle, thence tapering off j hinder prologs rather extended. 



