Some British Moths Described 
forsake the insides of the seed-pods as a resting-place, 
and hide under stones or under the sand near their 
food. A few may be found in the pods, but not nearly 
as many as you would take in the earlier stages. The 
northern varieties of the moth are generally very dark, 
and blend with the dark, weather-beaten granite rocks 
they love to rest upon. Expanse, 13 inches. 
Dianthecia capsincola: the Lychnis (Plate IX, 
Fig. g).—I have never found species of Dianthecia 
readily attracted by sugar, although this and the next 
species, Cucubalt, are taken regularly at various flowers 
in the neighbourhood of which sugar was laid on in 
abundance ; yet in five years I have recorded only one 
specimen as taken at sugar. In suburban gardens 
they occur at various flowers, but the open country 
meadowland, pink with the bloom of Ragged-Robin 
(L. flos-cucult) 1s almost a certain haunt of several species. 
They should be sought early in July and early in the 
eve..ing. They are very quick in their movements, 
and, until experience is gained in netting them, more 
may be missed than captured. ‘The larve live in the 
seed-pods of Lychnis vespertina, L. diurna, and Selene 
inflata. Capsincola is found in the two former, Cucu- 
bali in the latter, during August. In rearing them, see 
that they are abundantly supplied with seed-pods, or 
they will assuredly eat one another. Expanse of Cap- 
sincola, 1+ inches. 
Polia Chi: Grey Chi (Plate IX., Fig. 10),—Usually 
found resting in the daytime on old walls and rocks, 
sometimes perfectly concealed by its strong resemblance 
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