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Pupa rather cylindrical, rounded in front, elongated, with 

 the abdomen slig-htly curved forward ; segments of the 

 abdomen with a distinct smooth hoop-like band ; anal seg- 

 ments with a tuft of short stiff bristles. Colour dark 

 chestnut brown, with the incisions of the free segments black. 

 In a cocoon of whitish silk covered with morsels of leaf or 

 rubbish, at the foot of a tree, or on the underside of a leaf, on 

 the ground. 



In this condition through the winter. 



I find no record of the place of concealment adopted by 

 this species in the daytime except that it occasionally sits on 

 the trunk of a tree. It flies at dusk and is readily attracted 

 to sugar, but restless, and easily frightened away. It is an 

 exceedingly local species, inhabiting woods in the extreme 

 south of England, apparently only in the counties of Sussex 

 and Kent — Brighton, Hastings, Hailsham, Canterbury, 

 Tenterden, Gravesend, and formerly rather common in the 

 Rochester district. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe and great 

 part of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Northern Spain, 

 Southern Russia, Armenia, and Siberia. Also widely dis- 

 tributed in North America, extending to the Hudson's Bay 

 Territory, and bearing the names of im'prc&m, fasciata, and 

 Verrillii. 



10. A. euphorbise, Fah., myriew, Gn. — Expanse 1| to 

 li inch. Fore wings dark slate-colour, with lines and 

 stigmata obscurely black ; hind wings of male white, of 

 female dark grey. 



Anteunfe of the male thick, simple, dark grey, toward the 

 base barred, at the back, with whitish ; palpi short, tufted, 

 blackish-grey ; head dark grey with a whitish tuft at the 

 base of each antenna ; thorax densely covered Avith blackish- 

 grey raised scales, dusted with whitish ; shoulder-lappets 

 slightly raised and edged outwardly with black ; at the back 



