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bridgeshire, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, at Grange, North 

 Lancashire, and in Westmoreland and Durham ; but it is not 

 known to occur in Scotland or Wales. In Ireland Mr. 

 J. J. F. X. King has taken it commonly- near Athlone, and 

 Mr. C. W. Watts at Carrickfergus, Antrim ; and it is also 

 found at Sligo. and in some parts of Cralway, Abroad it is 

 common all over Europe except in the colder districts ; also 

 in Asia Minor, Northern Persia, and the mountain districts of 

 South- West Central Asia. 



2. O. distans, Zdl. ; laetus, Zcll. Expanse | to f inch 

 (15-19 mm.). Fore wings broadened and rather rounded 

 toward the hind margin ; pale greyish fulvous, with two 

 cloudy white crescents crossing the lobes, preceded by a 

 white streak and dot. Hind wings shining reddish-brown ; 

 the spot on the hind lobe small. 



Antennas of the male slender, short, simple, brown, ringed 

 with white ; palpi slender, horizontal, brown ; head ?,nd front 

 of thorax fawn-colour, hinder part of the latter brownish- 

 white ; abdomen pale brown with oblique white streaks and a 

 white edging to each segment. Fore wings narrow and costa 

 but little arched beyond the middle ; apex rather bluntly 

 pointed ; the lobes narrow behind, but showing a definite 

 hind margin and looking a little rounded ; dull fawn-colour 

 or pale fulvous dusted with grey or brown; a yellow-white 

 line from the base runs along the dorsal margin and bends 

 up into a very faint oblique central whitish cloudy stripe ; 

 before the fissure is a white cloud ; beyond this two white 

 stripes, placed somewhat in a curve or crescent, cross both 

 lobes, the first being broad and cloudy, the second forked on 

 the hinder lobe and running in two directions into the cilia, 

 which otherwise are brown ; on the dorsal margin are very 

 short white cilia interrupted at the anal angle by a black- 

 brown spot ; apices tipped with dark brown. Hind wings 

 glistening pale golden-brown ; cilia similar, but on the dorsal 

 edge of the third lobe interrupted by a dark brown spot. Legs 



