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prominent ; wing covers also tiiickenod, rather smooth and 

 scarcely sculptured, but showing the wing nervures and not 

 brightly polished ; dorsal and abdominal segments but faintly 

 punctured and smooth ; anal segment thickened and rounded ; 

 cremaster short, conical, furnished with numerous minute 

 hooked bristles ; pale brown ; abdominal segments more red- 

 brown, wing covers very transparent dull j-ellow. In a 

 thin silken cocoon among rubbish on the earth. 



The moth sits by day on the undersides of branches of 

 maple or among the leaves, and if disturbed darts rapidlj- 

 away, and to the ground. Formerly it was looked upon as a 

 scarce species, but the Rev. H. Williams, who found it 

 abundantly near Thetford, assured me subsequently that 

 wherever in England he had found maple growing to sufH- 

 cient size for flowering he had also found this moth. We 

 have it recorded as occurring in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset, 

 Wilts, Devon, Somerset, Essex, .Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge- 

 shire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Yorkshire and 

 Durham. In North AY ales in Denbigh ; and in South 

 Wales at Ciower and Porthkerry, Glamorgan, by Mr. ^'ivian. 

 So far as I know this is the extent of its range in these 

 Islands. Abroad it seems to be very little known ; and 

 recorded only from Germany, Dalmatia, and Norway. 



40. E. dodonseata, fru. — Expanse -J inch (18-20 mm.). 

 Fore wings somewhat pointed but not narrow, whitish- 

 brown, whiter in the middle ; transverse lines numerous, 

 brown, much streaked and spotted on the nervures with 

 black ; discal spot black, united to a previous black horizontal 

 streak. Hind wings brownish-white. 



Antenna? of the male slender, simple, ciliated, dark brown ; 

 palpi very short, blunt, dull brown ; head and thorax whitish- 

 brown; abdomen reddish-brown ; anal tuft closely compressed. 

 Fore wangs rather broad but pointed ; costa decidedly arched ; 

 apex bluntly rounded, almost angulated ; hind margin gently 

 curved and not very oblique ; dorsal margin also rather 



