94 I.EPIDOPTERA. 



Worcestershire ; Staffordshire, where it abounds on the 

 heathy hills of Cannock Chase ; Warwickshire, Derbyshire, 

 Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire and the more northern 

 counties. In Wales Mr. X'ivian records it in Glamorganshire, 

 and I have taken it in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland it is 

 found in Berwickshire. Ayrshire, Aberdeenshire, Argyle, and 

 elsewhere in the districts of the Tweed, Solway, Clyde, Tay, 

 and Dee. In Ireland in Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway, ]\Iayo, 

 and near Lough Swilly, Donegal. Abroad its range is 

 through Central Europe, Livonia, and Finland ; and there 

 are specimens in the British Museum labelled from Spitz- 

 bergen. 



24. E. isogrammata, y/.-N. ; haworthiata, St.Maiuinl. 

 — Expanse ^ inch f 11—1 (j mm.). Fore wings rather rounded 

 or long-ovate, whitish-grey-brown with numerous smoky- 

 brown or blackish transverse lines ; no discal spot. Hind 

 wings pale grey-brown. Basal segment of the abdomen 

 ochreous. 



Antenna? of the male simple, rather thickly ciliated, light 

 brown ; palpi small, very blunt, dark brown : head brownish- 

 white ; thorax grey-brown ; abdomen strongly tinged at the 

 base with orange-ochreous, and a little so down the dorsal 

 region, otherwise ashy-brown ; anal tuft compressed. Fore 

 wings rather elongate-ovate ; costa very flatly arched; apex 

 bluntly rounded ; hind margin gently curved, not very 

 oblique and the anal angle defined ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; colour pale ashy-brown, transversely striped 

 throughout with darker brown bands and lines, which 

 usually are very obscure ; there is, however, often visible, 

 a basal line followed by a broader band of this dark brown ; 

 then the first line, triplicated, and followed by another dark 

 band, narrowest in the middle ; then two more fine lines and 

 a slender dark band ; beyond which two dotted dark lines 

 seem to represent the ordinary second line ; hind marginal 

 region rather darker, completely intersected by a very 



