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it feeds on clovers and trefoils in July and August, but so far 

 does not seem to have been noted to eat grasses. 



The moth is on the wing at the end of May and in June, and 

 inhabits similar kinds of places to those mentioned for the last 

 species, often in company with it, and also with the Burnet 

 moths. Widely distributed over the greater part of the British 

 Isles ; common in some southern localities. Its distribution 

 abroad extends to Amurland, and in Japan it is represented 

 by the larger and paler form consors, Butler. 



Leucanitis {Ophuisd) stolida, Fab. — An example of this 

 species, which is a native of Africa and South Europe, was 

 captured by Mr. J. Jager in the neighbourhood of Dartmouth, 

 S. Devon. It was in fine condition, and came to sugar on 

 September 23, 1903. 



Lunar Double Stripe {Minucia {Pseudophid) lunaris). 



The portrait of this species on Plate 29, Fig. i, is taken from 

 a Spanish example. Exceedingly few British specimens have 

 been recorded. The earliest seems to be the following : 

 "Among my cabinet specimens there is one example of 

 Ophiodes lunaris^ captured at the Lowestoft Light in 1832. I 

 conclude this is a great rarity, having seen many cabinets with- 

 out it.— E. Chawner." Entom. vi. p. 147 (1872-73). Presumably 

 this is the same specimen as that mentioned by Stainton (1857), 

 Newman (1869), and later authors, as taken in Hants by Captain 

 Chawner. In i860 one example was obtained at sugar at West 

 Wickham ; and in 1864 Bouchard caught two specimens at 

 Killarney. On June 17, 1873, one came to sugar in Abbots 

 Wood, Sussex; one at Brighton in June, 1874, and another in 

 Sussex, May, 1875. One specimen came to light in Norfolk, 

 May, 1878; and one to sugar at Folkestone, May, 1892. In 

 June, 1901, a specimen was secured in Delamere Forest, 

 Cheshire, also at sugar. Dr. B. White's record of a capture 

 at Perth makes a total of eleven specimens. 



