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I. 6-7. Beat out of hedgerows by day. Comes to 



light and sugar. 

 O. 



Trigonophora. Genus includes flammea. 



trigrammica, Hufn. (trilinea, Bkh.), Grammesia. (Treble 



Lines) 



L. 7-4. On Plantago, subterranean in habit. 

 P. 5. Below ground. 

 I. 6-7. Comes to sugar. 

 0. 6-7. Eggs hatch hi under a fortnight. 



trilinea, Bkh. = trigrammica, Hufn. 



trimacula, Esp. (dodocea, Hb.), Drymonia. (Marbled Brown) 

 L. 7-9. On Betula (?) and Quercus. Hides by day 



in crevices. 

 P. 9-4. In a silk and earthen cocoon at grass roots, 



at base of tree. 

 I. 5. Generally emerges between 3.30 P.M. and 



6 P.M. 

 0. 



tripartita, Hufn. (urtica, Hb.), Abrostola. (The Spectacle) 



L. 7 and sometimes 9. Night feeder on Urtica dioica. 



P. 8-5. Amongst leaves and sometimes under moss. 



I. 5 (end) -6 and sometimes 8. Rests on fences. 

 Comes to light and to flowers of Valerian, 

 Honeysuckle, Woundwort, and Black 

 Horehound, etc. 



0. 



Triphaena. Genus includes comes, fimbria, iathina, interjecta, 

 orbona, pronuba, and subsequa. 



Triphosia. Genus includes dubitata. 



triplasia, L., Abrostola. (Dark Spectacle) 

 L. 7-9. On Humulus and Urtica. 

 P. 9-6. Often under moss on trees near food plant. 

 I. 6-7. Early larvae sometimes reach imago stage 8. 



Comes to light. 



O. 6-7. Laid, 24th July ; hatched, 31st July ( A. E. 

 Tonge). 



Triple-spotted Clay, (ditrapezium, Bkh., Noctua) 



