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or in any dark corner, and often may be found commonly in 

 outhouses. Its hybernation is, however, not very complete, 

 for, except in sharp frost, it is always lively and restless. 

 Pairing takes place in the spring. Common in the London 

 suburbs about cultivated honeysuckles on the walls ; abundant 

 throughout the South of England and also in the Eastern, 

 Western, and Midland Counties, but becoming local in 

 Cheshire, Yorkshire, Durham, and Cumberland. Common 

 in Wales and throughout Ireland ; in Scotland it is found 

 in Roxburghshire as already remarked, in the Clyde 

 Valley, and in Perthshire ; occasionally in Midlothian, more 

 frequently in Aberdeenshire and Moray. Abroad it has a 

 wide range, through the whole of Europe except the Arctic 

 region ; Asia Minor and Armenia ; while in North America 

 it is found in Canada, including Manitoba, also in California, 

 Oregon, Colorado, and Missouri. 



Section 1. rilYClTID^. 



Proboscis present ; antenna; of the male often either 

 thickened, flattened, or swollen and tufted near the base ; 

 maxillary palpi noticeable ; fore wings undivided, elongated, 

 narrow, usually blunt behind; vein 11 absent; hind wings 

 ample, having upon the upper side of the median nervure, a 

 row of stiff hairs or hair-scales, more or less erect ; veins 

 7 and 8 closely approximating; abdomen cylindrical, not 

 elongated. 



Genus 1. PHYCITA. 



Antennte of the male simple, except that the second joint 

 is thickened and broadened into an oval plate; palpi slender, 

 upcurved ; thorax and abdomen rather robust ; fore wings 

 moderately narrow and elongated, blunt behind; hind wings 

 ample ; legs robust, not very long. 



We have one species. 



