LARENTID.-E—ECPITHEC/A. 77* 



present aware of, from the obscurity of captured specimens, 

 as already pointed out. Recorded from vSurrey, Sussex, 

 Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Here-- 

 fordshire, Worcestershire, Norfolk, Derbyshire, Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, and Yorkshire. In Wales it was rather 

 common near Pembroke, and in Glamorganshire Mr. Vivian 

 found it with a fine black varietal form. In Scotland it has 

 been found in Wigtownshire, by the Messrs. Gordon ; in Ire- 

 land its distribution is far wider — Dublin County, Wicklow, 

 Cork, Kerrj% Galway, Sligo, Monaghan, and Armagh ; but 

 its range abroad is still uncertain — we only know it to occur 

 , in France and Germany. 



19. E. albipunctata, i/(n". ; tripunctata, ff.-<S^.— Ex- 

 panse f to 1 inch. Fore wings broad and blunt ; brown, faintly 

 rippled with whitish-brown ; discal spot large, black ; 

 nervures faintly dusted with black and white ; above the 

 anal angle is a distinct white spot, and often one or two more 

 above this. Hind wings pale brown with a white dot over 

 the anal angle. 



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

 projecting, dark brown tipped with paler ; head and thorax 

 pale umbreous, dusted with darker, and having often a faintly 

 whitish triangular spot at the back of the latter; abdomen 

 dull brown ; the latei-al tufts visible on a strong ridge ; dorsal 

 tufts scarcely perceptible ; anal tuft compressed. Fore wings 

 broad and blunt ; costa decidedly arched ; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin curved but not very oblique, the anal 

 angle fully formed ; dorsal margin rather full ; colour jDale 

 umbreous, thickly dusted all over with darker ; nervures 

 obscurely dotted and streaked with black-brown and white ; 

 costa clouded with numerous small obscure brown shadas ; 

 discal spot black, short and rather rounded ; lines absent, 

 except the subterminal, which is white but hai-dly visible 

 except in detached white dots, and a more conspicuous broad 

 one above the anal angle; cilia dull brown. Hind wings 



