2of) LEPIDOl'TERA. 



iiiny be seen flitting over the plants in the early dusk. Quite 

 a local sjiecies with us, but tolerably plentiful iu suitable spots 

 ill Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Herts, Gloucester- 

 shire, Cambridgeshire, Sufl'olk, and Norfolk. It is reported 

 to have been taken near Sheffield, Yorkshire, but this re- 

 quires confirmation. Otherwise it appears to be restricted 

 to the range above given, so far as these Islands are con- 

 cerned. Abroad it has a wide distribution — Central Europe, 

 Northern Spain, Dalmatia, Sicily, Southern and Western 

 Eussia, Syria, Asia Minor, India and Japan ; Morocco and 

 other parts of Northern Africa. 



1 1 . B. sambucalis, Bchijf'. — Expanse ^ to 1 inch. All 

 the wings shining dark olive-grey ; the fore wings with 

 three yellowish-white spots before the second line, and 

 similar blotches toward the apex ; hind wings similarly 

 spotted. 



Antenn;e of thr male simple, dark lirown ; palpi small. 

 rather bluntly porrected, tufted, dark brown ; head and 

 thorax black-brown ; abdomen similar, slender, each seg- 

 ment faintly edged with pale yellow. Fore wings elongateti 

 but rather blunt ; costa arched beyond the middle ; apex 

 squarely angulated ; hind margin gently rounded ; blackish 

 grey-brown, or olive-grey with a golden gloss ; first line very 

 obscurely black, nearly erect ; second line bent very widelj' 

 outward and then curved up, yellowish-white, expanding as 

 it approaches the costa into a large, somewhat triple, yellow- 

 white spot ; lying within the curve of the second line is a 

 still larger, rounded, clear yellow-white spot ; and between 

 two black dots which represent the orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata is a rather squared spot of the same pale colour, 

 having another, smaller, beneath it; hind-marginal region 

 faintly clouded with yellowish-white, and edged with black 

 dots ; cilia shining black-brown. Hind wings not elongated 

 but well rounded ; black-brown with a golden gloss ; in the 

 middle area are three large whitish spots ; and following 



