io6 LEPID-OTTERA. 



Sligo. Abroad it seems to have been observed only iu Germany, 

 or its distribution confused with that of the next species. 



2;>. E. innotata, llah. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 long, narrow, trigonate, pale umbreous : nervures dotted and 

 streaked with darker brown ; discal spot a perpendicular 

 black streak ; second line angulated, faintly edged with 

 white. Hind wings white, clouded with brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, minutely ciliated, brown 

 slenderly ringed throughout with white ; palpi very small, 

 reddish-brown ; head and thorax rather rough, pale umbreous ; 

 abdomen paler, dorsal tufts hardly jjerceptible ; anal tuft 

 compressed. Fore wings elongated ; costa flatly arched ; 

 apex very acutely rounded, almost pointed ; hind margin 

 curved, very obliijue : dorsal margin filled out; colour pale 

 umbreous or greyish-brown, thickly dusted, except in the 

 discal cell, with dark bi-own ; basal line strongly angulated 

 but obscui-e, principally indicated by black dots on nervures ; 

 first line double, dark brown, oblique, but bent back sharply 

 to the costa. and very indistinct : central line very similar 

 but duplicated, parallel, the first of the pair embracing the 

 black discal spot, the other faintly edged on the costa with 

 whiter brown ; second line also double, hardly dai'ker than 

 the ground colour, most visiljle by its pair of edgings of 

 dirty white, whiter on the costa ; subterminal line w'hite, 

 slender, sinuous, and just below the costa formed into two 

 deep white loops ; outside it some black streaks on nervures 

 point to the hind margin ; nervures in the middle of the 

 wing also partially streaked and sjootted with black ; extreme 

 hind margin edged with short black streaks ; cilia pale grey, 

 clouded and intersected with brown. Hind wings rather 

 broad but short, rounded behind, brownish-white, the dorsal 

 region broadly shaded with dull brown, wliirh is broken by 

 transverse whiter lines; hind margin also shaded with smoky- 

 brown, iu which is a faint series of whiter clouds ; cilia 

 brownish-white. Female similar. 



