DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES OF CONSPICUOUS SPECIES 219 



FAMILY VIII. ACIDALID^E. 



BRADYEPETES AM AT ARIA. THE BLOOD- 

 VEIN. 



(Plate X., Fig. 5.) 



This pretty species is widely and generally distributed 

 in England, and by no means uncommon ; it occurs also 

 in Ireland ; but, I believe, it has not been noticed in 

 Scotland. 



The expansion of the wings is about 1 J inch. All the 

 wings are whitish-grey, dusted with grey, with a dull, 

 dark red line from the apex to the middle of the inner 

 margin of the fore-wings, continued across the middle 

 of the hind-wings ; beyond this line the ground-colour 

 is generally rather darker and is intersected by a slender, 

 wavy, transverse line, which also starts from the apex ol 

 the fore-wings ; along the hind-margin, which is often 

 suffused with rosy, is a slender deep red line ; cilia paler 

 red. 



The larva has the fifth segment much swollen ; it is 

 grey, with the dorsal line, and the subdorsal lines, which 

 are rather interrupted, whitish ; on the fifth to ninth 

 segments are oblique white streaks from the dorsal to 

 the subdorsal lines. It feeds on dock and various species 

 of Polygonum, in August and September. 



The perfect insect appears in June and July, and is 

 partial to wet places ; we are almost sure to dislodge it 

 from the herbage on the sides of ditches, and sometimes 

 we may see it sitting with its wings expanded on a leaf 

 of meadow-sweet (Spirsea ulmaria). 



