356 LRPTDOPTERA. 



Pupa apparently not described. 



The moth doubtless hides during the daytime among thick 

 herbage in chinks and crevices of rocks, but it is rarely seen 

 by day. 1 took several specimens on one occasion on the 

 railings of the balcony surrounding the lantern of a light- 

 house, to which they had doubtless been attracted on the 

 previous night. It comes freely to light and also to the 

 blossoms of ragwort, and in either case settles down perfectly 

 quietly. It has also been secured at heather blossom, and 

 comes freely to sugar in its very restricted localities. These are 

 usually rocks on the coast, or high hills inland. It is plentiful 

 in some seasons at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, and is found 

 at Torquay, Mount Edgecumbe, and Padstow, in Devon and 

 Cornwall ; in the Scilly Isles ; has been recorded at Brighton 

 and at Scarborough ; at the eastern end of the Cotswolds in 

 Gloucestershire ; also in Herefordshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire 

 and Cheshire. The most remarkable captures of the species 

 in England, however, were at Sutton Park, near Birmingham, 

 where two unmistakable specimens were taken, at sugar, in 

 1893 or 1894, by Mr. and Mrs. Abbott; and another by 

 Mr. G. W. Wynn in 1895. This locality is 500 feet above 

 sea level, but is not rocky, and the presence of the species 

 there is somewhat perplexing. In South Wales I have 

 obtained it from the Island of Caldy, near Tenby, and have 

 little doubt that it is common on all the very wild and rocky 

 range of coast of South Pembrokeshire. In Scotland it has 

 been taken on several portions of the Eastern coast, extending 

 to Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire ; and also on the South-west 

 coast. Inland, Sir Thomas Moncrieff found it commonly on 

 Moncrieff Hill, Perthshire, from 100 feet upwards. In 

 Ireland it used to be common on the Hill of Howth, near 

 Dublin, but was nearly exterminated there by ruthless col- 

 lecting; it has also been found near Diingarvan, Watei'ford ; 

 and at Mount Charles, Donegal. 



Abroad it is said to be widely distributed in Southern, 



