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under th» namp of Ihmlhai. ciiruiturid, but afterwards 

 corrected by him in the Zoologist for 185S. This was of a 

 specimen taken in Bloomsbury Street, London, and ilr. 

 Stainton added that :specimens already existed in the 

 collections of Mr. !•'. Bond and Mr. A. V. bjheppard. in 

 18(>'.l the capture of three or four specimens in the shop of a 

 herbalist in llolborn was announced ; and in 1873 one was 

 taken from a sho]) window in Oxford Street. Six years 

 later another was tak-en in Cannon Street, City ; and from 

 that time it does not seem to have been noticed here until 

 1898, when Mr. Selwyn linage had the good fortune to secure 

 a specimen in Southampton Kow. jiloomsbury. 'i'hus all the 

 recorded iiritish specimens seem to have occurred within an 

 area of from one to two square miles in the metropolis. 

 On the Continent it is said to have quite the same habit 

 being found in and about liouses, and especially herb ware- 

 houses, its range extends through France, Switzerland, 

 portions of Cermany, Hungary, the North of Spain. Italy, 

 the Balkan States, and Bithynia. 



8. A. contiguaria, IIiOi. — Kxpanse ;,■ incli. Wings all 

 brownish-white more or less dusted with black ; fore wings 

 with three, an<l iiiiul with two, curved, angulated, indented, 

 and clouded tranverse black lines ; costa of fore wings 

 spotted with black. 



Antenna- of the male notched and thickly ciliated, reddish- 

 brown ; palpi of the same colour, verj- small ; eyes black ; 

 face convex, dark chocolate ; head and thorax yellowish- 

 white ; abdomen white, dusted with dark l)rown ; lateral 

 tufts small; anal tuft yellowish. Fore wings not broad; 

 costa almost straitrht tor two-thirds of its length, then 

 strongly arched ; apex verj* bluntly angulated, almost 

 rounded: hind margin nearly straight, very oblique; dorsal 

 margin straight ; brownish-white, so much dusted with 

 black as to give it a grey tinge ; more pale brown along the 

 costa; first line thick and black on the costal and dorsal 



