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light and also to the sugar used to attract noctvce. An ex- 

 ceedingly local species, found in Kent, Sussex, the Isle of 

 Wight ; the Isles of Portland and Pnrbeck in Dorset ; near 

 Exmouth, and Torquay, Devon; formerly in Herts; and 

 once taken in Norfolk. This list of localities is so meagre 

 that one is tempted to think it somewhere overlooked. These, 

 however, are all the records that I possess, and I have never 

 taken the insect myself. In Ireland Mr. Kane records its 

 capture at Dursey Island, Kerry. Abroad its range extends 

 all over Europe, except the arctic portion, also Western 

 Asia, Tartary, India, China, and Japan. 



Genus 5, PEMPELIA. 



Antennae slender, simple, but in the male the second joint 

 elbowed and furnished at the back with a tuft of scales ; 

 palpi blunt and thick, curved up ; fore wings narrow, and 

 with the cell very narrow ; hind wings ample, vein 5 absent. 



Our two species are readily separated by the form of the 

 second line, which in P. ornatella is very oblique and only a 

 little waved ; while in P. dilutelia it is more upright, decidedly 

 angulated, and repeatedly indented. 



1. P. ornatella, Sdiiff. — Expanse J to 1 inch (19- 

 25 mm.). Fore wings rich yellow-brown, with red, brown, 

 and white clouding toward the costa ; first and second lines 

 both oblique, though in opposite directions ; both direct. 

 Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male thickened at the base, the second 

 joint twisted and having a tuft of scales in the hollow : 

 brown faintly barred with white ; palpi rather flattened, 

 upraised but blunt, ashy-brown ; head and thorax pale 

 reddish-brown ; abdomen leaden-brown ; fore wings elon- 

 gated, rather narrow ; costa nearly straight, but arched 

 toward the apex, which is bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 gentlj- curved; colour pale yellow-brown or clay-brown, 



