96 LEPIDOPTERA. 



The niotli is active in the daj-time, flying very swiftly iD 

 hot sunshine about and over its food-plant. By this habit it 

 becomes so rapidly worn that specimens captured on the 

 wing are seldom in sufficiently fine condition for the cabinet, 

 and very often are barely rocognisable except for their small 

 size. 



Found almost exclusively about Clonatin, but following 

 this plant freely in gardens, in districts in which it is not 

 found wild. Most plentiful, however, in the chalk districts of 

 the South of England. Still to be found in the suburbs of 

 London, and common in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Dorset, 

 Wilts, Devon, Somerset, Berks, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, 

 Herefordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, 

 also found in Leicestershire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, 

 Dei'by shire and North Lancashire, which last appears to be 

 its northern limit in these Islands. In Wales it occurs in 

 Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire ; and in Ireland in 

 Dublin County, Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Tyrone, and Louth. 



Abroad its range is through France, Belgium, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Northern Italy, and South-Western Russia. 



25. E. pygmaeata, Ruh. — Expanse about f inch 

 (16-19 mm.). Fore wings trigonate, rather pointed; pale 

 umbreous with numerous obscure whitish transverse lines ; 

 no discal spot ; a white spot above the anal angle. Hind 

 wings smoky-brown. 



Antenna3 of the male simple, short, ciliated, brown ; palpi 

 very short and small, dark brown ; eyes reddish-brown ; head 

 and thorax dull umbreous dusted with white ; abdomen paler 

 brown, dusted with oclireous ; anal tuft compressed to a 

 point. Fore wings somewhat trigonate, more nearly pointed 

 than in allied species ; costa almost straight ; apex suddenly 

 rounded ; hind margin oblique but very little curved ; dorsal 

 margin nearly straight ; colour umbreous with a faint gloss 

 of "olden-brown : nervures dusted with white almost 

 throughout, the intervals being dark brown ; costa edged 



