4i8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Forest, Hants, and has been taken, besides the Eastern 

 Counties already mentioned, in Sussex and Dorset, as well 

 as in Herefordshire, where it has been found flying about 

 the fir trees in the evening, and the larva repeatedly secured. 

 In Ireland it has been reared at Timoleague, Co. Cork, by 

 Mr. R. E. Donovan ; but I have no knowledge of it else- 

 where in these Islands. Abroad it is said to be extensively 

 distributed through Central Europe, the South of France, 

 and the North of Spain ; also in India and Japan, and under 

 the name of Pinipestis renicnlrUa in North America. 



3. D. palumbella, Fal. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 elongate, rather rounded behind ; pnrple-brown with pale 

 grey shading along the costa ; transverse lines black edged 

 with purple-red ; discal dot black. Hind wings smoky 

 brownish-white. 



Antennse of the male simple, but thickened and flattened 

 near the base, brown ; palpi short and thick, ascending, dark 

 brown ; head and thorax hoary purple-brown ; abdomen 

 silky pale grey-brown. Fore wings elongated, rather 

 narrow ; costa very flatly arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin rather rounded ; colour purple-brown with a 

 broad cloud of hoary grey along the middle of the costa ; 

 first line placed far from the base, erect but angulated and 

 indented, edged internally by an orange-red stripe, which 

 again is edged by a black line ; second line black, waved 

 and forming a sharp angle near the dorsal margin ; this line 

 is edged outside by a light red cloud ; discal spot an erect 

 deep black streak expanded at its base ; a small black cloud 

 lies on the costa before the apex and is followed by a hoary 

 grey cloud ; extreme hind margin edged with black ; cilia 

 shining greyish-white. Hind wings broad, rounded behind, 

 shining pale smoky-brown, margin darker ; cilia brownish- 

 white. Female very similar, but the antennae quite simple. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoky-brown, with a 

 darker spot on the costa near the apex. Hind wings shining 



