62 f^EPIDOPTERA. 



Moderately common on heaths, in marshes, osier beds, fens, 

 and the edges of woods, in the Southern, Eastern, and 

 Western counties of England, and in Wales to the extreme 

 west ; apparently absent from, or extremely rare in, some 

 parts of the Midlands, though common at Sutton Park near 

 Birmingham ; much more common on heaths and mosses in 

 Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and probably to be found 

 in such situations throughout the north of England. Also 

 found throughout Scotland to vSuthei'landshire and to the 

 Hebrides and Orkneys — in the last-named islands rather com- 

 monly. Generally distributed in Ireland, and richly coloured, 

 specimens of the male from the Belfast district having the 

 hind wings of a remarkably clear orange. Abroad it is very 

 widely distributed — nearly all over the continent of Europe, 

 Asia Minor, Armenia, Siberia, and Tartary. In Lapland it is 

 small, pale, and dull-coloured in both sexes. In Spain Mr. 

 J. J. Walker, R.N., found it on the wing at the end of March; 

 its larva feeding in May and showing a preference for 

 Helianthemum halimmfolium. 



Family 13. DREPANULIDiE. 



Head depressed ; antennae rather short, pectinated in the 

 males, more shortly so or dentated in the females; tongue 

 minute, apparently functionless ; palpi very small. Thorax 

 and abdomen usually slender; wings short and broad; fore 

 wings elongated at the apex and usually more or less hooked. 



Larv^ singularly shaped, not hairy, ridged on the back 

 and the sides ; having only fourteen legs, a short horizontal 

 point being substituted for the anal pair. 



PuPjE of ordinary form, in a thin cocoon among leaves. 



This is a strongly marked gi^oup of comparatively small 

 moths; not closely connected with the preceding, though 

 related to the Bomhycidce through many intermediate 



