152 LEPinOPTERA. 



crop ; common also throughout England and probably Wales, 

 though I have records only from Glamorganshire, Pembroke- 

 shire, Carnarvon and Flint. In Scotland, found in Berwickshire, 

 Roxburghshire, Edinburgh, Fife, Wigtownshire, Ayrshire, 

 Argyleshire, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire and Ross-shire, but 

 scarce iu the more northern of these counties. Widely distri- 

 buted in Ireland, and doubtless to be found wherever apple trees 

 are common. Abroad it ranges through Central Europe, the 

 temperate portions of Northern Europe, Middle and Northern 

 Italy, Corsica, the Balkan States and Southern Russia. 



47. E. pumilata, Huh. ; ruflfasciata, Hav. — Expanse 

 I to I inch (l-j-l'J mm.). Fore wings narrow and pointed, 

 whitish-brown shaded with tawny ; first and second lines 

 black, followed by tawny clouds. Hind wings brownish- 

 white, rippled with red-ljlack transverse lines, 



Antennee of the male simple, slender, most minutely 

 ciliated, shining dark brown, faintly barred with paler ; 

 palpi very small, umbreous ; head and thorax pale brown, the 

 latter shaded across the front with darker brown ; abdomen 

 light brown, faintly barred with white ; anal tuft compressed 

 and deflected. Fore wings narrow and very pointed ; costa 

 flatly curved, hardly arched ; apex shortly and bluntly 

 rounded, almost pointed ; hind margin oblique, nearly 

 straight, yet curved oft" below ; dorsal margin filled out and 

 strongly ciliated ; colour very pale reddish-brown or 

 brownish-white ; basal line curved, dark brown, enclosing a 

 reddish-brown patch ; first line oblique, curved, brown, pre- 

 ceded by a parallel narrow reddish shade and followed by 

 a narrow brown stripe broadest on the costa ; this last 

 usually includes one or more black spots or streaks ; second 

 line black, shaded off" inwardly in the costal half of the wing, 

 thence brown and indistinct ; closely following it is a white 

 rivulet intersected by a slender brown thread ; the middle of 

 the wirrg is also usually whitened ; hind margin faintly 

 or strongly clouded with red-brown, through which runs- 



