312 LEPIDOPTERA. 



very much less so in the Midlands, where the only record 

 that I find is in StafTordshire. Also occurring in Yorkshire, 

 Lancashire, Westmoreland, and very rarely in Durham. In 

 Wales it is pretty common in I'embrokesliire, and doubtless 

 has a wide distribution. In Scotland the only record that I 

 find is at Rothesay, Bute. In Ireland, near Dublin, and in 

 Wicklow and Galway. Abroad it seems to be common 

 throughout Central and Southern Europe, and to occur in 

 Bithynia and Armenia. 



14. B. ferrug'alis, Huh. — E.vpanse f to | inch 

 (19-22 mm.). Fore wings narrow, tawny, with dark 

 brown stigmata and slender transverse lines. Hind wings 

 pale smoky-brown or smoky-white. 



Antenna? of male simple, shining, light-brown ; palpi 

 long, pointed, almost porrected or else drooping a little, red- 

 brown ; head and thorax chestnut-red ; abdomen slender, 

 pale grey-brown, each segment edged with paler ; anal tuft 

 paleyellow-browu. Fore wings narrow ; costa arched beyond 

 the middle ; apex angulated ; hind margin oblique, almost 

 straight ; colour orange-brown ; first line faintly suggested 

 by small blackish clouds ; immediately beyond is a large 

 flattened ring of black dusting forming an orbicular stigma ; 

 reniform stigma deeper black, but much obscured by its in- 

 clusion in a large smoky black discal spot ; second line an 

 oblique series of cloudy black dots or crescents between 

 nervures ; subterminal line a faint shade of similar dots : 

 cilia shining leaden-brown with a row of black dots along 

 their base. Hind wings rather long and ample, rounded 

 behind ; smoky brown with a large paler central blotch, 

 through which runs an obscure irregular darker line; margin 

 also darker brown ; extreme hind margin dotted with black ; 

 cilia shining smoky white- with a yellov\ish line along the 

 base. Female similar, or often of a paler shade of colour. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky brown, with darker 

 nervures ; also paler spots along the costa and hind n^.argin 



