-i HERMINIID/E. 



York, Norwich, Brooke, Surlingham, Aldebj', Merton, 

 Barton, Epping, Colchester, St. Osyth, Deal, Southend, 

 Galway, Pembroke. 



This species frequents woods during June and July. 



The larva, which feeds on Brachypodium sylvaticum 

 and other grasses, is velvety green, with a darker dorsal 

 and white subdorsal lines ; head dull green, with dark 

 hairs and markings ; tubercles shining green, with a 

 black apex and hair ; spiracles flesh-colour, ringed with 

 black ; legs green. It passes the winter in the larval 

 state, pupating about the end of the following May in 

 a blade of grass folded together by means of silk threads. 



E. M. M. xix. 49. 



Zauclognatha grisealis, Hb. 



nemoralis, Fb. 



(Plate 2. fig. 1.) 



Loc. S.W. of Scotland, Devonshire, Easthara, 

 Wirral, Chester, Huddcrsficld, Richmond (York.), 

 Sheffield, Norwich, Aldeby, Merton, Colchester, Has- 

 tings, Suffolk, Southend, Pembroke, Kingstown. 



Common in woods during June and July. 

 The larva, which feeds on oak, is pinkish grey, 

 slightly freckled with darker; the head and dorsal 

 plate dark brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines, spiracles, 

 and tubercles all of a darker shade of the ground- 

 colour ; abdominal surface paler. This larva pupates 

 in September between leaves spun together. 



E. M. M. xiii. 110. 

 Ent. iii. 223. 



