LARENTID.-E—EUriTHECIA. \\<y 



bridgeshire, and Norfolk ; but seems to be almost totally- 

 absent from tlie Midlands and North, with the exception of 

 Yorkshire, where it is very local. In Wales it is found in 

 Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire ; in Ireland in Dublin, 

 Wicklow, Cork, Kerry, Monaghan, Sligo, Tyrone, and Derry. 

 Abroad in many parts of Central Europe, Middle and Northern 

 Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, South-east Russia ; and in Japan, 

 from which may be inferred some considerable Asiatic 

 distribution. 



46. E. rectangulata, L. — Expanse | to \ inch (18-23- 

 mm.). Fore wings short and blunt, dull dark green — vary- 

 ing from full green to deep black — central band broad, 

 formed of black lines and green and smoky clouds ; a series 

 of blackish clouds lies along the hind margin. Hind wings 

 paler green with numerous smoky transverse lines. 



Antennae of the male simple, finely ciliated, reddish-brown ; 

 palpi slender, dark green ; head and thorax bluish-green ; 

 abdomen greenish-brown, each segment having a rather 

 raised edging of scales at its margin ; anal tuft compressed. 

 Fore wings blunt and broad ; costa Hatly arched ; apex 

 bluntly rounded ; hind margin not very oblique, smoothly 

 curved ; dorsal margin straight ; colour dark green ; basal 

 line very slender, angulated, black ; the first line arises near it 

 on the dorsal margin as a black streak, forms a black spot each 

 on the median and subcostal nervures, then bends back as a 

 black cloud to the costa ; a little further a similarly blackened 

 and somewhat parallel central line clasps the black discal spot 

 in its angle ; outside it are two fainter and more direct slender 

 black lines, and then the usual second line, formed of deep- 

 black dots on nervures and a perpendicular black streak on 

 the costa ; this is followed by a rivulet-stripe of the green 

 ground colour, intersected by a faint dark line, and edged 

 by a smoky black band, which is interrupted below the costa 

 and elsewhere thrown much into horizontal streaks and 

 points ; this again followed by the subterminal line — -green ;. 



