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LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



way between the second bar and the apex, and is sinuous. 

 In addition to the three bars there are a double pale band 

 between the first and second bars, and two beyond the third 

 bar. The hind-wings are pale grey, suffused with brownish 

 towards the hind margins, with a double central line and a 

 faint discoidal spot. 



The Treble Bar. 



The larva feeds on St. John's Wort. It is coppery-brown, 

 with a darker dorsal and narrow pale yellow lateral line. 



The pupa is brown and long, with a long proboscis-sheath. 

 It lies on the ground or among dry leaves, without a cocoon. 



FAMILY SIONID^:. 



Antennae generally simple, palpi short and slender; pro- 

 boscis and legs slender ; wings entire, concolorous, with few 

 markings ; hind-wings with the costal and sub-costal nervures 

 almost united; median nervules well separated. The moths 

 fly by day. 



Larva rather short and cylindrical, feeding on low plants. 

 Pupa subterranean. 



A Family of small extent ; one species is British (Baptria 

 (rtrata (Linn.), and is called the Chimney Sweep, from its 

 smoky-black colour, the tips of the fore-wings only being 

 narrowly white. A more varied Continental species is here 

 figured. 



