350 LEPIDOPTERA. 



hill sides, rock}' places, and quarries in all the Southern 

 and Eastern Counties, particularly those along the coast ; 

 also found in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Derby- 

 shire, Yorkshire, Durham, Lancashire and Westmoreland, 

 vet apparently absent from almost all the .Midlands. 

 In Wales common in Glamorganshire and I'embroke- 

 shire, and found in the Isle of Anglesea ; in Scotland, 

 near Edinburgh, in Roxburghshire, Lanark, Dumbarton- 

 shire, and Perthshire ; and in Ireland, on the Dublin 

 coast, in Waterford, Cork, Connemara, and elsewhere in 

 Galway, Sligo, Cavau, Armagh, Antrim, and Donegal. 

 Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe, the tem- 

 perate portions of Northern Europe, in Russia and Armenia, 

 and in Canada and many parts of the United States of 

 America. 



2. P. isodactylus, Zdl. — Expanse f to 1 inch. Fore 

 wings retuse, dull umbreous-brown with darker cilia ; and 

 ill-defined darker clouding from the costa to the discal dot. 

 Hind wings brown. 



Antenna; of the male short, simple, glossj' brown ; palpi 

 short and rather concealed, pale brown ; head and thorax 

 dull drab ; abdomen browner but pale at the base. Fore 

 wings very narrow, rather truncate behind ; costa arched 

 beyond the middle ; apex shortly pointed ; hind margin 

 retuse, not very oblique, and the ana! angle well marked ; 

 fissure much concealed by its closely applied edges ; colour 

 dull umbreous or brownish-drab ; a darker brown line, 

 dotted faintly with white, lies along the costa, and two or 

 three faintly darker streaks lie between the nervures before 

 the middle ; at the base of the fissure are one or two small 

 black dots, and from this to the costa is a dark brown cloud 

 which has some appearance of a costal cloudy triangle ; 

 extreme hind margin dark brown; cilia similar but whitish 

 at the tips. Hind wings broadly divided into three heavily 

 fringed sections, pale grey-brown with a glistening golden 



