140 LEPIDOI'TEKA. 



widely distributed, recorded from Dublin, Wicklow, Kerry, 

 (ialwaj', Westmeath, Sligo, Monaglian, Fermanagh, and 

 Tyrone. Abroad its range extends over the greater portion 

 of Central Europe, also Jjivonia. 



43. E. sobrinata, Hnh. — Expanse f to finch (lG-22 

 mm.). Fore wings rather narrow ; greyish-brown, with a 

 straight oblique black central line and a similar second line 

 in which is a patch of black wedges above the middle ; discal 

 spot narrow, black. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, ciliated, dark brown ; ])alpi 

 very small, purplish-brown ; eyes golden-brown ; head and 

 thorax pale umbreous, dusted with darker, and the latter 

 tinged on the back with red-brown ; abdomen purple-brown ; 

 anal tuft compressed. Fore wings rather narrow ; costa flatly 

 arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hiud margin very faintly 

 curved, rather oblique ; dorsal margin nearly sti-aight ; 

 colour dull umbreous or blackish-brown, sometimes with a 

 faint reddish flush on the dorsal half ; basal line hardly 

 perceptible — when present a faint blackish curved shade ; 

 first line scarcely more distinct, but faint shades of black 

 dusting on the costa originate three or four obscure brown 

 lines, oblique and tolerably parallel ; central line very oblique, 

 tlouble, black, thickened on the nervures, running straight 

 to the black discal spot, which it touches, and then bending 

 back a little to the costa ; sometimes forming a sort of 

 central band from intermediate black shading; just outside 

 the discal spot is a white edging or clouding ; second line a 

 rather broad smoky-brown shade, blackened on the nervures, 

 especially on those situated beyond the discal spot, and its 

 outer edge tolerably well defined ; following this is a faint 

 double stripe of whitish dusting ; hind-marginal area shaded 

 with smoky-brown, in which the subterminal line forms a 

 series of angulated greyish-white dots ; cilia pale grey-brown 

 clouded with smoky-brown, but faintly whiter at the tips. 

 Hiud wings well rounded, dull brown, whiter toward the 



