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The Fan-foot {Zaiidognatha tarsipen?talis). 



This species is shown in both sexes on Plate 35, Figs, i $ , 2 5 ; 

 it is the Pyralis tentaculalis of Hawoith, and also that author's 

 tarsicrinatus^ and the tarsicrinalis of Stephens. The general 

 colour is brownish, sometimes inclining to ochreous, and 

 occasionally with a greyish cast. The submarginal line starts 

 from the front edge, before the tip, of the fore wing. 



The caterpillar is greyish brown, darker freckled, and dotted 

 with black, downy; three broken darker lines along the back, 

 the central one broad and inclining to black, and lower down 

 along the sides is a series of blackish streaks ; head, darker. 

 It feeds in July and August, and hibernates when nearly or 

 quite full grown. Among various foods that have been men- 

 tioned for it are raspberry, ivy, and knotgrass. Some years ago 

 I had some moths emerge in the autumn ; these resulted from 

 caterpillars that I had reared from the ^g% on blackberry, and 

 I remember that they showed a decided preference for the 

 withered leaves left in the cage for them to pupate among. 

 (Plate 34, Fig. 2.) 



The moth is out in June and July, but individuals of a second 

 generation seldom occur in the open. Although it occurs in 

 woods, it is far more frequent in lanes and hedgerows. Common 

 and generally distributed, from Worcester southwards, and to 

 the east and west ; northwards its range extends to Yorkshire, 

 but it is local and uncommon. 



In Scotland it is not scarce in some parts of Ayrshire, and 

 has been recorded from Kircudbrightshire. Kane mentions it 

 as fairly common in Ireland. 



The range abroad extends to Amurland, Corea, and Japan. 



