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found their way into many collections. Subsequently the 

 larva was found to exist on various parts of the Norfolk 

 coast, though always confined to very limited areas, usually 

 of but a few yards extent, although the food plant might be 

 in plenty for miles. So far as I know, the coasts of these 

 two counties, Norfolk and Yorkshire, constitute its range in 

 the British Isles, yet a rumour has been heard of captures 

 on the shores of the estuary of the Thames, and its discovery 

 on any part of our eastern coasts would cause little surprise. 

 There is scarcely any doubt in my own mind that it is a 

 recent immigrant to our coasts, and its extensive spread is 

 reasonably probable. 



Abroad it is understood to inhabit Lapland, some parts of 

 Russia, Siberia, Armenia, and the mountainous regions of 

 Central Asia. 



5. E. pulchellata, Skph. — Expanse f inch (23 mm.). 

 Fore wings elongated, brownish-white shaded with chestnut ; 

 central band mottled grey and black ; discal spot distinct, 

 black ; cilia chequered. Hind wings smoky-white with grey 

 bands. 



Antennas of the male slender, short, simple, hardly ciliated, 

 brown ; palpi small and slender, black-brown; face smooth, 

 orange-brown ; head, neck-ridge and thorax tawny or yellow- 

 brown ; abdomen of the same colour, small and tapering, the 

 segments edged with dull black ; anal tuft small and pointed. 

 Fore wings elongate ; costa nearly straight to beyond the 

 middle, thence the curve runs round the apex and hind margin; 

 dorsal margin straighter ; colour brownish-white or yellowish- 

 buff, clouded with fulvous ; basal line irregular, curved, black, 

 edged outside with white ; the basal space dusted with black ; 

 first line slender, much angulated and curved, black ; imme- 

 diately beyond, only separated by a whitish line, is a broad 

 central band of dark smoky browu, pointed up on the costa 

 and nervures with black or blue-black, also on the latter 

 with intermediate dots of white ; discal spot, placed in this 



