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and flutter about, yet not at all timid, since it keeps very 

 nearly about the same spot, just out of reach, "flopping" 

 about with upraised wings, and far more noticeable for its 

 fastidiousness as to the stem upon which it shall next alight, 

 than for any uneasiness about its own safety ; indeed, a 

 rough flowery bank, with a dozen or more of these moths, 

 all disturbed at once, fluttering about within a few yards 

 extent, all quite unable to decide where they shall next settle 

 down, is rather a lively picture. Its natural time of flight is 

 in the late dusk and the night, and it will sometimes come 

 to a light, and to the blossoms of knapweed, ragwort, and 

 other plants. Late and worn specimens have even been 

 taken upon ivy-bloom. Found in all parts of England and 

 Wales, though in Norfolk and some other eastern districts it 

 is local and rather uncommon ; otherwise, it is one of our 

 most abundant species. In Scotland it is not so generally 

 distributed, yet is found in suitable places to the Clyde 

 valley in the west, but apparently throughout the more 

 eastern and middle districts, even to Ross and Sutherland- 

 shire, yet I find no record of its presence in the Isles. In 

 Ireland it is everywhere common, and in some of the hilly 

 districts of the north of that country excessively abundant. 

 Abroad it inhabits the whole of Europe except the extreme 

 south, being rare in Portugal, and is found in Asia Minor, 

 Armenia, Tartary, and the mountainous regions of Central 

 Asia. 



Genus 29. COLLIX. 



Antennfe simple ; palpi blunt, head rather smooth ; thorax 

 provided with a thick crest-like tuft at the back ; abdomen 

 furnished with one or two obscure prostrate tufts ; fore 

 wings ovate, crenulated behind ; the discal cell less than one- 

 half the length of the wing ; hind wings rounded, scalloped 

 at the hind margin. 



We have but one species. 



