74 LEPIDOPTEKA. 



be beaten out and easily captured. Its natural flight is at 

 rather late dusk, over bushes and hedges ever^-where. It is 

 not so common now as formerly in London gardens — indeed 

 seems to be becoming rather scarce in tbem, but is elsewhere 

 plentiful all over England, Ireland, and probably Wales ; and 

 in Scotland in all the more Southern districts, in Perthshire 

 and the Hebrides ; but in Aberdeenshire is rather scarce, and 

 does not seem to extend beyond Moray. 



Abroad it has a wide range through Central Europe,. 

 Northern Italy. Grenada, Finland, Livonia, the northern 

 Balkan States, Tartary, the mountainous regions of Central 

 Asia, Western China and Japan. 



18. E. virgaTireata, Ncv:man; pimpinellata, Gn. 

 Stn. Manual. — Expanse | inch (23 mm.). Fore wings elon- 

 gated but blunt, pale grey-brown ; nervures alternately 

 dotted with black and w-hite ; costa clouded with black ; 

 discal spot black ; a white spot is above the anal angle. 

 Hind wings pale brown. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, brown ; palpi rather 

 projecting, blunt, dark brown ; head and thorax umbreous,. 

 dotted with darker brown, at the back of the latter is a short 

 whitish bar ; abdomen brown, with the lateral tufts well 

 developed, but the dorsal tufts hardly perceptible, the anal 

 compressed and depressed. Fore wings somewhat ovate ; 

 costa flatly arched ; apex rounded ; hind margin fully curved, 

 almost expanded ; dorsal margin also well filled out ; light 

 umbreous ; the nervures all indicated by short black streaks 

 and obscure intermediate white dots ; on the costa is a suc- 

 cession of black-brown cloudy spots, of which one before and 

 another bej-ond the middle are most distinctly black ; discal 

 spot between these, somewhat triangular, black ; outside this 

 is a more distinct series of black streaks or wedges on the 

 nervures, with following black dots indicating a most 

 obscure double second line ; subterminal line visible as a 

 series of faint curved white streaks, the most distinct forming. 



