200 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



therefrom, is out in June and July, and even later in some 

 seasons. The earliest hatched caterpillars reared in confine- 

 ment sometimes attain the moth state in August of the same 

 year. Although certainly local, the species has a wide distri- 

 bution in the southern half of England, and is not uncommon 

 in some localities. Its range extends into Wales, and also 

 northwards to Cumberland and Westmorland, but it is gene- 

 rally very much scarcer in the north than in the south. In 

 Ireland it is known to occur locally in counties Antrim, Tyrone, 

 Fermanagh, Waterford, Kerry, and Galway, but, as a rule, 

 only sparingly. 



Abroad, the distribution includes North Amurland and North 

 America. 



Cloaked Carpet {Euphyia pkata). 



An older Enghsh name for this species (Plate 82, Figs. 4, 5) 

 is " The Short Cloak Carpet," Harris (1782), but that given to 

 U by Ha worth is here adopted. It is also the biangulata of 

 Haworth, Stephens, and others. 



As will be observed on referring to the figures, the outer edge 

 of the blackish central band of the fore wings is twice angled 

 just above the middle ; the basal area and the outer marginal 

 border are dark greyish brown, more or less tinged with olive ; 

 the whitish ground colour only shows distinctly as a strip imme- 

 diately beyond the central band, and from this an irregular 

 streak runs to the tips of the wings ; some white wavy cross- 

 lines through the outer border are often obscure. 



The stoutish caterpillar is yellowish brown, or sometimes 

 reddish brown ; there is a series of blackish or dark-brown 

 spots along the back, and a stripe of dusky freckles along each 

 side ; lower down are two slender wavy lines enclosing a dusky 

 stripe ; head, yellowish-brown mottled with darker brown. It 

 feeds, at night, on chickweed and other kinds of Stellaria, in 



