158 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Scotland it is equally common in restricted localities near 

 Hawick and Edinburgh, in Roxburghshire, Wigtownshire ; 

 the Clyde ^'alley ; Argyle, with Bute ; Perthshire — abun- 

 dantly on river banks — Aberdeenshire and Moray. In 

 Ireland it is abundant in the south, in Waterford and 

 Kerry, also in Galway ; and is found in Clare, Westmeath, 

 Fermanagh, Tyrone, 81igo and Donegal, and rarely in Derry. 

 Abroad it has a wide distribution through Central Europe, 

 the greater portion of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, 

 Spain, the Ural mountain regions, Asia Minor and 

 Armenia. 



Getius 2. APLASTA. 



Antennte isimple, apparently naked ; palpi short and 

 blunt ; head and thorax rather rough ; abdomen smooth, 

 not very slender ; fore wings broad in the male, nari'ower in 

 the female, rather squared behind ; hind wings ample, 

 squared at the anal angle. 



We have but one species. 



1. A. ononaria, Fuessl. — Expanse 1 inch. All the 

 wings powdered, pale drab or reddish-drab, tinged behind 

 with purple-red ; fore wings with two, and hind with one, 

 slender, transverse, purple-red line. ' 



Antennffi of the male rather thick, short, simple, almost 

 naked, yellow-brown ; palpi short, thick, beak-like, j^ale 

 chocolate ; eyes deep black ; face convex, almost globose," 

 edged above by a deep channel under the antenna?, pale- 

 chocolate ; head and neck-ridge pale brown ; thorax slightly 

 roughened, pale orange-brown ; abdomen short, cylindrical, 

 dull buff ; lateral tufts small ; anal tuft short and blunt.i 

 Fore wings broad and somewhat squared behind ; costa' 

 gently arched ; apex distinctly though bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin just below it almost retuse, then expanded and' 

 but slightly rounded off toward the anal angle, which is' 

 prominent ; dorsal margin straight, densely ciliated ; colour 



