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or shaken out it often drops or flutters to the ground. At late 

 dusk it flies about the trees, but is then not often noticed. It 

 was discovered here in the year 18G2, and eggs and conse- 

 quent larva3 were then obtained by the late lamented artist, 

 Mr. Edward Hopley, from moths taken in Sussex and Surrey. 

 In 1866 it was found to be common in Yorkshire, and there 

 were strong reasons for believing that an extensive immigra- 

 tion of the species had taken place from the Continent, since 

 in a few years it had so spread over the country that it might 

 be reckoned upon, almost with certainty, in any large planta- 

 tion of larch. I have no record for Cornwall, and for Wales 

 only that of Mr. Vivian in Glamorganshire, but wherever its 

 food plant is plentiful it seems now to occur from Devon and 

 Kent to Northumberland and Cumberland ; and in Scotland 

 in the Edinburgh district, Perthshire, Clydesdale, Aberdeen- 

 shire, and the Hebrides. It had reached Skye in 1883. In 

 Ireland it has been found near Dublin, in Wicklow, Louth, 

 Limerick, Galway, Westmeath, Monaghan, Tyrone, and Sligo, 

 and is now abundant in Donard Demesne, Mourne Moun- 

 tains, Down. Mr. Kane is of opinion that it is of recent 

 introduction to Ireland consequent on the extensive planting 

 of larch. Abroad its range extends through Central Germany, 

 Bavaria, Switzerland, Eussia, Armenia, and Tartary. 



17. E. castigata, Rav;. — Expanse f inch (18 mm.j. Fore 

 wings not elongated, brownish-white, with numerous very 

 faint sinuous transverse smoky-grey lines ; central spot a 

 black dot ; costa clouded with smoky-black. Hind wings 

 white, faintly banded with grey. 



Antennas of the male simple, ciliated, light brown ; palpi 

 small, black-brown ; head and thorax grey-brown dusted 

 with black ; abdomen whitish-grey at the base, middle seg- 

 ments grey-brown ; anal segment and anal tuft grey. Fore 

 wings rather broadly rounded ; costa gently arched through- 

 out ; apex much rounded ; hind margin curved and not very 

 oblique ; dorsal margin also rather full ; somewhat glossy 



