I30 I.EPIDOPTERA. 



plentiful ill AVicklow, Cork, and Keriy ; and found near 

 Dublin, and m Loutli, Sligo, Ferniauagli, Armagh, and 

 Derry. Abroad it occurs in Finland and has a wide distri- 

 bution through Central Europe. 



39. E. subciliata, Gn. — Expanse | inch (15-lG mm.). 

 Fore wings narrow, rather pointed, pale brown, with numerous 

 oblique deeper brown transverse stripes, most of them beyond 

 the discal spot, which is a minute black dot. Hind wings 

 very pale brown. 



Antennaa of the male slender, simple, ciliated, pale 

 umbreous; palpi slender, pointed, grey-brown; head and 

 thorax dull brownish-drab; abdomen reddish-brown, streaked 

 and dotted on the sides with black, and very minutely dotted 

 upoi! the dorsal ridge with tlie same ; anal tuft closely com- 

 pressed. Fore wings narrow ; costa very flatly arched, 

 almost straight ; apex narrowly rounded, almost angulated ; 

 hind margin rounded and oblique ; dorsal margin a little 

 filled out ; pale umbreous or brownish-drab ; the costa faintly 

 spotted with brownish clouds ; discal spot indistinct, minute, 

 dull black ; the lines most indefinite and obscure, but there 

 is a series of very oblique parallel lines or shades of brown 

 atoms from the base to the discal spot, across which a more 

 perpendicular smoky shade seems to represent the central 

 line; outside this two similarly oblique and more dotted 

 lines indicate the usual second line, and these are closely 

 succeeded by a stripe of the paler ground colour; hind-mar- 

 ginal area clouded with smoky-brown, through which a pale 

 brown subterminal line widely meanders ; at the extreme 

 tip is a shining whiter streak from the costa and often a 

 similar small apical cloud ; cilia whitish-brown spotted with 

 dark brown. Hind wings rather broad, the hind margin a 

 little sinuous; whitish-brown; central spot minute, dull 

 black ; dorsal region dusted, and once barred, with brown ; 

 and a smoky-brown band, containing paler clouds, lies along 

 the hind margin ; cilia long, pale grey-brown, clouded with 



