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and in Dorset at the Isle of Portland. It seems to have 

 been once taken on the coast of Devon, and there are single 

 records at Stowmarket and Felixstowe, Sutiblk. So far as I 

 know this is the extent of its rantje in these Islands. 

 Abroad it is found in most parts of Western, Central, and 

 .Southern Europe. 



10. A. osseata, .'^'•/,/7/:, humiliata, Bi'iml. ('«<.— Ex- 

 panse % to ;,' inch. Win^s yellowish-white; each with a 

 black central dot, and all occujiied by faint parallel 

 rippled transverse lines of a pale ochreous; fore wings 

 ■nnrrov\ the costa strongly tinged with brick-red. 



Antennas of the male simple, minutely notched, thickly 

 ciliated, shining white; palpi minute, chocolate-brown; face 

 of the same colour ; top of the head pale olive-brown; front 

 of the thorax reddish-brown, the back thereof, with the 

 abdomen, being creamy-white; anal tuft yellowish-white, 

 fore wings rather narrowly ovate ; costa flatly arched 

 throughout ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind margin very gently 

 curved ; dorsal margin straight, strongly ciliated ; colour 

 creamy pale yellow with the costal region tinged, from the base 

 to the apex, with bright red or brick-red ; first and second 

 lines both oblique and sinuous, light yellow-brown, between 

 them a central line rather paler, and beyond the second, one 

 or sometimes two more, parallel, and similar in colour, 

 forming in all a series of four, or sometimes five lines, all 

 somewhat parallel and similar, but not very distinct ; discal 

 spot a small black dot ; cilia creamy-white. Hind wings silky 

 yellowish-white ; central spot a minute black dot ; beyond 

 it are three faintly perceptible yellowish transverse lines, 

 and sometimes another is placed before it ; cilia creamy- 

 white, very silky. Female c|uite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings yellowish-white, much dusted 

 with smoky-grey ; central spot minute, black ; beyond it is 

 an undulating dark grey line, followed by two fainter, similar, 

 cloudy hands. Hind wings paler, almost yellowish-white; 



