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  12th, 
  1902, 
  and 
  July 
  17th, 
  1903, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeek 
  (Bankes) 
  ; 
  June 
  

   28th, 
  July 
  5th, 
  23rd, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Keswick 
  (Beadle) 
  ; 
  June 
  30th, 
  1903, 
  in 
  the 
  

   Norfolk 
  Broads 
  (Edelsten) 
  ; 
  July 
  12th, 
  1903, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeek 
  

   (Bankes) 
  ; 
  July 
  21st, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Hazeleigh 
  (Raynor) 
  ; 
  mid- 
  July, 
  1903, 
  at 
  

   Mucking 
  (Burrows) 
  ; 
  bred 
  June 
  25th, 
  1904, 
  from 
  larva 
  found 
  June 
  

   8th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  Benfleet, 
  others 
  captured 
  on 
  July 
  7th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  North 
  

   Shoebury 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  July 
  6th-13th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (James) 
  ; 
  July 
  

   15th, 
  1904, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeek 
  (Bankes) 
  ; 
  July 
  6th-28th, 
  1905, 
  at 
  

   •Great 
  Wakering, 
  July 
  15th. 
  1905, 
  on 
  Thundersley 
  Common 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  

   July 
  14th-23rd, 
  1905, 
  in 
  the 
  Strood 
  district 
  (Ovenden). 
  

  

  Habits. 
  — 
  The 
  imago 
  is 
  very 
  difficult 
  to 
  find 
  and 
  to 
  dislodge 
  from 
  its 
  

   hiding-places 
  during 
  the 
  daytime, 
  but 
  may 
  be 
  occasionally 
  disturbed 
  

   in 
  the 
  late 
  afternoon 
  from 
  among 
  its 
  foodplant. 
  Towards 
  evening 
  it 
  is 
  

   readily 
  made 
  to 
  stir, 
  and 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  later 
  hanging 
  about 
  on 
  the 
  flower- 
  

   ing 
  shoots 
  of 
  yarrow. 
  Bower 
  observes 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  flying 
  commonly 
  in 
  the 
  

   late 
  afternoon 
  in 
  mid-July, 
  1878, 
  at 
  Brandon, 
  among 
  A 
  chillea 
  millefolium 
  ; 
  

   Bankes 
  notes 
  it 
  as 
  being 
  on 
  the 
  wing, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeek, 
  in 
  the 
  evening, 
  

   amongst 
  rough 
  herbage, 
  where 
  A. 
  millefolium 
  is 
  plentiful, 
  and 
  observes 
  

   that 
  it 
  continues 
  to 
  fly 
  till 
  about 
  dusk, 
  and 
  perhaps 
  later 
  ; 
  whilst 
  in 
  mid- 
  

   July 
  both 
  sexes 
  have 
  been 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  wing 
  at 
  8.45 
  p.m. 
  It 
  is 
  

   recorded 
  as 
  flying 
  at 
  dusk 
  about 
  the 
  foodplant 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (James), 
  

   at 
  Sanderstead 
  (Sheldon), 
  at 
  Buckerell 
  (Riding), 
  at 
  Boscombe 
  

   (Robertson), 
  at 
  Pitcaple 
  (Reid), 
  near 
  Sheerness 
  (Walker). 
  Whittle 
  

   notes 
  that, 
  from 
  July 
  6th-28th, 
  1905, 
  he 
  found 
  it 
  flying 
  earlier 
  in 
  the 
  

   evening, 
  where 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  good 
  growth 
  of 
  milfoil 
  at 
  Great 
  Wakering, 
  

   whilst, 
  later, 
  an 
  occasional 
  example 
  was 
  taken 
  at 
  sugared 
  flowers 
  of 
  milfoil 
  

   or 
  wild 
  carrot. 
  Barrett 
  observes 
  that 
  the 
  moth 
  hides 
  by 
  day 
  in 
  the 
  

   tufts 
  of 
  its 
  foodplants, 
  keeping 
  very 
  closely 
  concealed, 
  and, 
  if 
  shaken 
  

   out, 
  is 
  hardly 
  to 
  be 
  induced 
  to 
  more 
  than 
  scramble 
  away 
  to 
  another 
  

   place 
  of 
  concealment; 
  at 
  early 
  dusk 
  it 
  flies 
  gently 
  about, 
  and 
  is 
  readily 
  

   seen. 
  Miss 
  Kimber 
  observes 
  that 
  it 
  only 
  flies 
  after 
  dusk, 
  and 
  that, 
  in 
  

   early 
  July, 
  1891, 
  in 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  swampy 
  ground 
  near 
  Newbury, 
  hundreds 
  

   of 
  specimens 
  were 
  seen 
  flying 
  at 
  night, 
  whilst 
  hours 
  of 
  laborious 
  

   beating 
  in 
  the 
  daytime 
  failed 
  to 
  disturb 
  a 
  single 
  specimen 
  from 
  among 
  

   the 
  heath, 
  rushes, 
  and 
  yarrow. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  at 
  light 
  at 
  Panton 
  

   (Raynor), 
  at 
  Ipswich 
  (Pyett), 
  at 
  Bushey 
  Heath 
  (Barraud), 
  at 
  Boscombe 
  

   (Robertson), 
  at 
  Button 
  (Hodgkinsonj, 
  at 
  Norwich 
  (Barrett). 
  The 
  

   imagines 
  pair 
  during 
  the 
  late 
  evening 
  and 
  night 
  (Bacot). 
  Sorhagen 
  

   says 
  that 
  on 
  one 
  occasion 
  he 
  found 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  G. 
  pallidactyla 
  (bertrami) 
  

   in 
  copula 
  on 
  Artemisia 
  vulgaris. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  The 
  habitats 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  are 
  very 
  varied. 
  We 
  have 
  

   taken 
  it 
  on 
  sandy 
  banks 
  by 
  the 
  roadside, 
  between 
  Deal 
  and 
  Sandwich; 
  

   on 
  waste 
  ground 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  shut 
  in 
  for 
  building-purposes, 
  and 
  that 
  

   became 
  covered 
  with 
  yarrow, 
  in 
  JS87, 
  at 
  Westcombe 
  Park, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  

   most 
  abundant 
  ; 
  a 
  few 
  plants 
  of 
  yarrow 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  allowed 
  to 
  grow 
  in 
  

   the 
  garden 
  were 
  also 
  attacked. 
  It 
  abounds 
  in 
  the 
  yarrow 
  plants 
  growing 
  

   on 
  the 
  waste 
  places 
  edging 
  the 
  path 
  by 
  the 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Thames, 
  from 
  

   Maidenhead 
  to 
  Cookham, 
  and 
  also 
  on 
  the 
  waste 
  places 
  by 
  the 
  side 
  of 
  

   the 
  road 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the 
  Leas 
  at 
  Folkestone. 
  It 
  is, 
  like 
  PlatypHUa 
  

   yonodactyla, 
  essentially 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  waste 
  ground, 
  but 
  confined 
  to 
  those 
  

   places 
  where 
  Achillea 
  millefolium, 
  or 
  A. 
  ptarmica, 
  is 
  the 
  prevalent 
  plant, 
  

   whilst 
  P. 
  yonodactyla 
  is 
  confined 
  to 
  places 
  where 
  Tussilago 
  farfara 
  runs 
  

   rampant. 
  Barrett 
  says 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  common 
  among 
  its 
  foodplants 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  