28 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
12th segment with a rather rosy horn, a yellowish stripe along the 
spiracular region. Food, sea-lavender (Statice limonium). July. Second 
brood, September to May (after hybernation). 
Pupa.—Green, thickly sprinkled with white dots, and more or less 
suffused with violet-brown ; wing- and antenne-cases darker green; thorax 
slightly humped ; head truncate, tipped with violet-brown. Suspended by 
the tail from withered leaf or flower-stem of food-plant. May, July. 
Plate I., fig. 8, Agdistes bennetii; 3a, larva enlarged; 36, pupa, 
natural size; 3c, ditto, enlarged; 3d, food-plant, sea-lavender (Statice 
limonium), showing where larvee have fed. 
I have to thank Messrs. Henry Moncreaff and E. G. Meek for 
larvee of this species. 
The hybernated may be found as soon as the food-plant throws 
out fresh leaves in thespring. Mr. Moncreaff says (Entom. v. p. 321) 
that where the plant shows signs of having been eaten the larva 
should be looked for. It resembles the plant in colour, and falls off 
its food on the slightest disturbance. Mr. Meek tells me that the 
larva is extremely difficult to find, as it unfortunately happens that 
leaves of sea-lavender, with holes and niches in them, are anything 
but scarce in the habitat of the insect. It would appear, there- 
fore, that to obtain these larve one must be prepared to devote 
considerable time to the enterprise. 
Mr. Carrington, who is familiar with the habits of Agdistis 
bennetit in a state of nature, informs me that the perfect insects, 
which are double-brooded, may be disturbed from among the 
food-plants on the salt marshes, near the estuaries of our rivers, 
throughout the day, especially during fine, calm afternoons; but 
the time of flight is shortly after dusk until midnight. 
AciptTinia, Hb. 
spilodactylus, Curt. 
obsoletus, Zell. 
(Puate I., Fra. 4.) 
Imaco.—Expanse, 10-11 lines. Fore wing white, with a slight 
ochreous tinge; the markings are a black spot of irregular shape at the 
digital juncture, and four small linear black dots placed thus,—one on thé 
costa just beyond the middle, one below this on the inner margin of inner 
digit, and one in the up of each digit. Fringes whitish, grey at the tips of 
both digits, and a large greyish blotch about the middle of fringe of inner 
margin of inner digit. Tips of both digits pointed, that of inner deflexed. 
