204 LEPIDOPTERA. 



purplisli-red ; surface rather glistening. In a delicate cocoon 

 of open network, either between leaves, in moss on the surface 

 of the ground, among grass at the foot of a poplar, or under 

 loose bark on that tree. In this stage through thew inter. 



So far as I know, the moth is never taken in the daytime. 

 It doubtless hides in the poplar trees. It flies at rather late 

 dusk and into the night, and comes to sugared trees, but is 

 very timid, sipping with raised wings, and flying wildly 

 round if disturbed ; but if allowed to feed a while is not quite 

 so restless. To obtain it yojplar trunks should be sugared, 

 A very local and far from common species. Most frequent 

 in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and the Cambridgeshire and 

 Huntingdonshire fen and chalk districts ; also found in 

 Somerset, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire, 

 but very locally ; and there is a record of its occurrence in 

 Sussex. This appears to be the extent of its range in these 

 islands ; abroad it is found throughout Central, and great part 

 of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Portugal, Armenia, and 

 Tartary. 



A very beautiful series of hybrids between the last two 

 species has been reared by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher. All are 

 much alike and yield nothing in ornamental appearance to 

 either parent, being rosy-grey, with the black quadruple bands 

 of G. or and the 80-marks of C. ocularis, which last are pure 

 white. 



Genus 4. ASPHALIA. 



Antennae short, thick, ciliated ; eyes hairy, with thick back- 

 lashes, hardly erect, but mixed with the head scales, which 

 project and give the head a hairy aspect; thorax stout, 

 usually crested at the back ; abdomen moderately stout, 

 usually not crested ; fore wings not broad, banded ; hind wings 

 with vein 5 arising close to the median nervure. 



Larvae naked, concealed under drawn together leaves of 

 trees or bushes. 



1. A. dibxtsi, Scliif. — Expanse If inch. Body moderately 



