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sweets, such as honeydew, and is readily attracted by the 

 sweet compound of treacle or boiled sugar mixed with beer 

 and rum, and technically known as " sugar," to the attrac- 

 tions of which so many species of the present group fall 

 victims. It does not, however, settle quietly down to feed, 

 but sits with wings half erected and quivering ; and on the 

 approach of the collector will often dart off and fly round 

 him in a tantalising way, but from its light colour is easily 

 captured in the net. If not caught, it does not always return 

 very readily to the sugar. 



Common in wooded districts all over the South of England, 

 except in Cornwall, where it seems to be scarce. Widely 

 distributed, though not plentiful, in the Fen districts and 

 throughout the Eastern Counties to Lincolnshire and York- 

 shire ; also in the West, in Herefordshire, Worcestershire, 

 Cheshire and Lancashire ; scarce in the Midlands, though 

 found in Warwickshire and North Staffordshire. In Wales 

 I have found it in Pembrokeshire, and it doubtless occurs in 

 other suitable localities. In Scotland there seems to be but 

 a single record — at Gourock, by Mr, P. Cameron, In Ireland 

 apparently in every wooded district from Dublin to Sligo, 

 and from Kerry to Londonderry, and sometimes very 

 common. 



Abroad it has a wide distribution : all Central Europe, 

 Northern Italy, Livonia, Armenia, Tartary, Himalayas, 

 Burma, Bengal, Japan. Specimens from some of these 

 Eastern countries are known under the names of Indica, 

 fraterna and derasoides. From North America a form known 

 as scripta is more of an olive-brown, and very lovely, but 

 apparently not distinct. 



Genus 2. THYATIRA. 



Antennae rather short, curved, ciliated ; eyes naked, having 

 lashes at the back ; thorax rounded, strongly crested at the 

 back ; shoulder-lappets raised ; abdomen crested ; fore wings 



