350 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the case noticed by him being the first observed in fifty 

 years. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



This species is regarded by many entomologists here and 

 abroad as merely a variety of A, tritici, and is so shown in 

 Dr. Staudinger's Catalogue. My own opinion to the contrary 

 is greatly strengthened by familiarity with the insect at large ; 

 where from its somewhat more robust build and the different 

 shape of its fore wings it appears obviously distinct. The 

 brown nervures of its hind wings also appear to me a good 

 character. Its habits are as in its congeners — to hide on the 

 ground among herbage during the day and to fly at night ; 

 coming very eagerly to blossoms of lime, ragwort, scabious, 

 ox-eye daisy, centaur ca and many other plants. Kollar 

 found it flying in numbers about blossoms of Clematis. When 

 actually in company with A. tritici on the same flowers it 

 may instantly be discriminated. 



In my own experience it is especially attached to chalk 

 districts, thovigh not confined to them. The records are some- 

 what incomplete and not always reliable ; but it is found 

 commonly in Norfolk and Suffolk, the Cambridgeshire Fen dis- 

 trict, and Reading, Berks, whence I have recently seen very fine 

 specimens taken by Mrs. Bazett. No doubt it occurs in suit- 

 able places throughout the Southern Counties, though the other 

 records seem only to include Sussex, Dorset, Devon, Somerset 

 and Gloucestershire, in no case commonly. Also in Oxford- 

 shire, Herefordshire, rarely in Leicestershire and Derbyshire, 

 apparently absent from most of the Midlands and not noticed 

 in Wales. It certainly occurs in Yorkshire, but the record 

 for Cheshire and Lancashire, " on sand-hills and in mosses," 

 has a dubious appearance. In Scotland it is said to have 

 been taken in Clydesdale, and Mr. South records it from the 

 Hebrides; other Scottish localities, as the Tweed district, 

 Moray and the Orkneys, are furnished by Dr. Buchanan 

 White, but further evidence is desirable, It is not certainly 



