6o I.F.PIDOPTERA. 



Abroad it is found throughout the greater portion of Cen- 

 tral Europe, Itcaly, Corsica, Dalmatia, and South-East Eussia. 



12. E. pusillata, ,SY7njf:— Expanse \ inch (18 mm). 

 Fore wings glossy whitish-brown, with four oblique, in- 

 dented, ill-defined brown transverse stripes, and inter- 

 mediate faint lines ; discal spot large, black. Hind wings 

 smoky-white. 



Antennae of the male slender, simple, minutely ciliated, 

 dark brown ; palpi also brown, very short and blunt; head 

 and thorax light umbreous, dusted with black ; abdomen 

 dull brown dusted with white, a black line down the dorsal 

 ridge but the tufts hardly perceptible; anal tuft compressed, 

 purple-brown. Fore wings narrow ; costa very flatly arched ; 

 apex narrowly rounded ; hind margin moderately oblique 

 but very little curved ; dorsal margin long, rather filled out ; 

 colour glossy whitish-brown ; no basal line ; discal spot 

 placed just before the middle of the wing, large, ovate, black; 

 across it runs the first line, double, umbreous, blackened on 

 the costa; immediately beyond it is the second line, parallel, 

 dark umbreous, edged outside with whiter clouding ; beyond 

 this is another parallel dark brown stripe ; then the sub- 

 terminal line, also parallel, ill-defined, brownish-white ; and 

 a final brown stripe lies along the hind margin, edged 

 with black streaks ; cilia brown, a paler line lying along 

 their base. Hind wings rather narrow, a little sinuous at 

 the hind margin ; pale umbreous, darker behind, where is a 

 faint transverse paler line ; central spot dull black ; extreme 

 hind margin edged with black ; cilia shining brownish- 

 white, clouded with darker. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings whitish-umbreous ; a paler 

 streak along the costa is barred three times with smoky- 

 black ; discal spot black. Hind wings dusky white dusted 

 with brown, having two indistinct curved darker brown 

 transverse stripes ; central spot black. Body and legs brown. 

 Usually not variable, but a specimen taken near Ipswich 



