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groups. It is quite easily to be seen as it sits closely pressed 

 to the surface, and if dislodged, by a sharp blow on the branch, 

 will flutter to the ground, or drift away on the wind. It flies 

 at late dusk about the outer twigs of the trees, and on a 

 clear evening may readily be caught at this time as it visits 

 them. Eather a local species, formerly common in the 

 London district, but now jjushed further into the country. 

 Found in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Wilts, Devon, 

 East Cornwall, Somerset, Berks, Middlesex, Esses, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and 

 i-arely in Yorkshire and Cumberland, In Wales the only 

 record that I possess is that of Mr. H. W. Vivian at Llan- 

 trisant, Glamorganshire ; and I find no certain capture in 

 Scotland. In Ireland it has been taken at Armagh among 

 hawthorn, also near Dublin, in Wicklow and Sligo. 



Abroad known to occur in Western, Central, and Southern 

 France, Holland, the north of Spain, and Corsica. 



41. E. abbreviata, Steph. — Expanse f to ^ inch (18-23 

 mm.). Fore wings elongated and produced to a blunt apex ; 

 pale red-brown clouded with umbreous ; transverse lines 

 numerous, black-brown, edged with short black wedges ; 

 discal spot small, black, usually joined to a central dark 

 blotch. Hind wings pale brown, with darker clouding. 



AntenuEe of the male simple, ciliated, black-brown ; palpi 

 blunt, dull brown ; head pale drab ; thorax reddish-brown ; 

 abdomen purplish-brown ; anal tuft thickened but closely 

 clasped. Fore wings elongated ; costa considerably arched, 

 especially so beyond the middle ; apex rounded ; hind margin 

 very oblique, the curve passing the anal angle and rounding 

 up the dorsal mai-gin ; light reddish -brown, with a transverse 

 dusting of white between the nervui-es in the middle area ; 

 costa faintly barred with dark brown ; discal spot an upright 

 black streak placed in the white dusting ; before it is an 

 oblique cloud of black dusting which seems to answer to the 

 first line, but this and also some previous clouding in the 



