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remain in cocoon among tlie fallen leaves through the winter, 

 and, in Scotland, occasionally even through two winters. 



The moth is rarely observed in the daytime. It flies at 

 dusk and comes willingly to sugar on tree trunks, but feeds 

 with its wings half erect and quivering, and is extremely 

 skittish, and rather difficult to secure. It continues to fly 

 until late at night. 



Rather common among poplars in the Southern English 

 counties, less so in the Eastern counties, and apparently 

 absent from the Midlands, except the fen district of 

 Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, where it is not scarce. 

 Found also in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, 

 and very locally in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and 

 Cumberland. In Scotland much more frequently found, 

 being very common in the Clyde district and extending freely 

 to Argyle, Moray, Ross, and Sutherland ; also to the Hebrides 

 and even the Shetland Isles. Rare in Ireland, but found in 

 Wicklow, Cavan, Galway, Sligo, Londonderry, and at Lough 

 Swilly, Donegal. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central and Northern 

 Europe, except the coldest portions of the latter, Northern 

 Italy, Livonia, Central and Southern Russia, Finland and 

 Tartary. 



4. C. ocularis, L. (?) ; octogesima, Stand. Gat. — Ex- 

 panse li to If inch. Stout, fore wings light brown, with 

 two pairs of transverse black lines ; stigmata whitish and 

 resembling the iigures 80. 



Antennae of the male very faintly ciliated, simple, light 

 brown ; eyes naked ; head densely tufted with smoky-black 

 scales, mixed with paler ; collar broad, pale grey mixed with 

 blackish ; thorax stout, densely covered with slightly raised 

 brown scales, very faintly crested at the back, but the 

 shoulders prominently raised ; abdomen stout, very pale brown, 

 with small lateral and anal tufts. Fore wings moderately 



