I20 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Northern Italy, South Lapland, Canada, and some parts of 

 New England. This is in fact the only one of our British 

 EiipilhiTia- which seems to have been recognised as an 

 inhabitant of North America. 



35. E. minutata, Hiih. — Expanse | to |- inch (18-22 

 mm.). Fore wings narrow, with the apex elongated ; smooth 

 pale reddish-brown ; the transverse lines often absent, occa- 

 sionally visible on the nervures ; discal spot black ; on the 

 costa are three or four black dots, and at the anal angle a 

 white spot. Hind wings whitish-brown. 



AntennjB of the male short, rather thick, ciliated, pale 

 brown; palpi slender, dull brown; head and thorax pale 

 brown and rather smooth ; abdomen more reddish-brown ; 

 dorsal tufts hardly perceptible ; anal tuft compressed. Fore 

 wings a little narrow and elongated ; costa very flatly arched ; 

 apes suddenly rounded, almost angulated ; hind margin 

 evenly curved ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; very pale 

 brown with a reddish gloss ; discal spot sharply deep 

 black ; costal area dusted with white and repeatedly spotted 

 with cloudy-black ; basal, first, and central lines scarcely 

 suggested except by connecting them, somewhat arbitrarily, 

 with the costal spots and with a series of very obscure 

 dapplings of paler and darker brown along the subdorsal 

 nervure ; second line rather more visible as a broad faint 

 stripe of whitish dusting edged and divided by rather darker 

 brown ; subterminal line white, irregular, and almost broken 

 up into dots, of which one above the anal angle is duplicated 

 and more conspicuous ; bind margin edged with dull black 

 streaks ; cilia shining grey-brown. Hind wings not broad, 

 rounded behind, grooved or wrinkled between the nervures ; 

 pale brown with but very faint traces of any markings ; 

 central spot dull black ; cilia grej'-brown. When, in rare 

 instances, the transverse lines are visible they are regularly 

 parallel, and but little oblique, rather straight and stiff, and 

 bent back to the costa. Female similar. 



