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mens have been taken in many unexpected places. Usually 

 it sits during tbe day in the branches of its food-tree, and 

 may then be beaten out and secured, but its usual natural 

 flight is at night about the trees. In Scotland it is reported 

 to hide by day among the lichens upon these trees. 



First noticed in this country in the year 1845 at Black 

 Park, Bucks, and for some years this continued to be its 

 only known locality with us. This may have arisen from 

 want of observation elsewhere, but there is good reason for 

 the belief that it has greatly extended its range in these 

 islands within a very recent period. Now it is tolerably 

 common in the jSTew Forest, Hants ; has been taken near 

 Devizes, Wilts, and once at Savernake Forest in the same 

 county. One specimen was secured by the Eev. C. T. 

 Cruttwell by beating a hedge close to the coast at South- 

 wold, Suffolk; and it has been taken at Brandon, 

 and at Dovercourt, Essex ; one specimen at Wisbech, 

 Cambs; one in Yorkshire, and one at Darlington. Durham. 

 In Scotland it is not scarce in Roxburghshire, where it was 

 found b}^ 3Ir. Adam Elliot ; rather frequent at Aviemore, in 

 Inverness-shire ; plentiful at Jloncrieffe Hill and elsewhere 

 in Perthshire ; and to be found in other places in the 

 districts of the Tweed, Clyde, and Tay. In Ireland Mr. 

 Kane considers it to be an introduced species, and says that 

 it is spreading over an extensive area as a result of the 

 planting of spruce firs ; Captain Donovan finds it commonly 

 in the County Coi-k, and it is frequent near Mullingar, 

 Westmeath ; found also in Monaghan, Kings County, Meath, 

 Sligo, Galway, Kerry, Roscommon, and Fermanagh, in some 

 cases only — as in England — singly. 



Abroad it ranges over the greater portion of Central and 

 Northern Europe. 



2. E. venosata, Fah. — Expanse § to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings pale brownish-grey, silvery-grey, or leaden-grey, laced 

 with numerous slender black transverse lines which curve. 



