70 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
colour as the moth. This would have been probably overlooked but 
for the white cilia on the termen. The moths mostly rest on the green 
leaves and usually beneath. When beaten out they either fly briskly 
straight-away for a short distance and then return to another part of 
the hedge, or they flutter down to the herbage below, where, if followed, 
they drop among the roots of the grass. They have an awkward habit 
of resting on the grass, after having been disturbed, with the under- 
side exposed to view, so that it is generally necessary to box them for 
examination, which leads to loss of time. Even the dark specimens 
appear pale on the wing on account of the light colour of the hind- 
wings and underside. The first specimen was seen August 14th, and 
a few were noted still lingering in the thorns on October 15th; they 
were most abundant during the second and third weeks of September. 
In October I placed a @ witha twig of hawthornin a box. She laid 
several ova on the box, especially along a seam where the lining joined, 
but none on the twig or leaves. On February 25th, this year, I 
noticed that some of these ova had hatched, and also that the hawthorn 
was showing green buds in sheltered situations. A few more larve 
came out on the following days. One, which was very active, burrowed 
into a hawthorn bud, but I could not find it in the bud the next day | 
though it had evidently fed a little. Having no microscope here, I can 
only say the eggs are of the form usual to this group, they were laid 
singly or in very small patches. The head of the newly hatched larva 
is black, prothoracic shield brown witha pale collar, and the body pale 
ochreous. 
The imagines vary much in size, my smallest measuring 
14mm. and the largest, a male, 19mm. Among those I took there are - 
four quite distinct forms and these all vary in themselves. It would 
be interesting to obtain two specimens exactly alike, a feat I have not 
succeeded in doing. The most abundant form, which far outnumbered 
the other three all put together, was that in which the forewings are 
reddish-ochreous, with a darker, more or less complete, central fascia. 
Some specimens are nearly brown, others nearly orange, as regards the 
ground colour. Some are nearly unicolorous, the fascia and reticula- 
tion being lightly marked, while in others these markings are quite 
dark brown, and in addition the costal spot is present. In this form 
the white raised tuft 1s often conspicuous. I suppose this form is the 
ciliana mentioned by Wilkinson (Brit. Tort., p. 150), but there is no 
marked difference in the cilia. The neatest specimen is one with a 
very bright ground colour and the central fascia sharply marked in 
outline only. The next most common form, in point of numbers, was 
that with the thick Y-like mark and very strong reticulation, which, 
according to Wilkinson, is the type contaminana. In the palest speci- 
men the ground colour is nearly white and the mark dark grey. In 
another the wings are bright ochreous, and the strong reticulations and 
mark are formed of a mixture of black and chestnut. Sometimes the 
markis brown. In all except one specimen the mark comes to a point 
before reaching the dorsum. The third and fourth varieties were 
rather scarce but occurred with the others. The third, in its best form, 
is quite handsome. The forewings are of the colour of the ab. ciliana 
in its more orange phase, but the reticulation is less noticeable. The 
central fascia is of the ciliana form till just above the fold, here it 
swells out into a large blackish patch, which is continued to the dorsum. 
