2 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



its known haunts nearest to London are Bromley and Chisle- 

 hurst in Kent, Richmond Park and Norbury in Surrey. At 

 Palmer's Green, Middlesex, a specimen was found on an oak 

 trunk, July 27, 1902, and a female example came to light in 

 West London in 1906. In 1888 it was plentiful at sugar in the 

 Bromley district. The New Forest in Hampshire is a noted 

 locality for the species, but although it may abound there in 

 some years, in other years it is scarce or entirely absent. It is 

 rather more constant in Epping, Romford, and some other of the 

 Essex woodlands, and occurs also in Berkshire, Huntingdonshire, 

 Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, and Devon. Odd specimens 

 have been recorded from Tarrington, Herefordshire ; St. Albans, 

 Hertfordshire'; and from Tuddenham, Suffolk. ThevsLr.rena^o^ 

 and its modifications, has been chiefly obtained in Essex and 

 Huntingdonshire, but it has been found also in the Reading 

 district, and elsewhere. 



The Lunar-spotted Pinion {Calynmia pyralina). 



There are two colour forms of this species ; var. corusca^ Esp., 

 is rather brighter in colour than the female specimen shown on 

 Plate 2, Fig. 3, which approaches more nearly the duller 

 coloration of the type as described by Vieweg. The latter is 

 perhaps the least frequent in England generally, but it occurs 

 sparingly in Middlesex. 



The caterpillar is green, with whitish warts emitting fine hairs, 

 and has three lines along the back, the central one white and 

 stripe-like ; a yellow stripe low down along the sides is edged 

 above with black. It feeds in April and May on elm, oak, 

 apple, plum, etc., among the leaves of which it hides by day, 

 and may be dislodged therefrom by jarring the boughs. (Plate 

 3, Fig. 2, after Hofmann.) 



The moth is out from about mid-July to mid-August. On 

 some nights it will come freely to sugar and on others it seems 



