32 LEPinoPTERA. 



in Cornwall and does not seem to be recorded from Wilts ; 

 also tolerably common in the Eastern and Western Counties, 

 becoming more local in Cheshire and Lancashire, but appa- 

 rently absent from the Midlands ; it is recorded in Yorkshire 

 and J)Lirham, and very rarely in Northumberland and Cum- 

 berland. I can find no records for Wales or Ireland, and in 

 Scotland only the capture of a single specimen in Berwick- 

 shire in I880, with Dr. Buchanan White's rather vague state- 

 ment '• reported from Clyde " district. Abroad it is found 

 throughout Central Europe, Italy, Northern Spain, Corsica, 

 the Balkan States, I'ithyuia, and Tartary. 



I_'. A. holosericata, Dup. — Expanse J to | inch. All 

 the wings with a satiny lu.stre, whitish-butt', each with four 

 faint yellowish-butf transverse undulating lines ; central and 

 marginal dots absent. 



AiitiMiua> (if the male simple, ciliated, minutely notched, 

 yellowish-white; palpi minute, and, with the face, dark 

 chocolate; head and thorax very pale yellow-brown ; abdomen 

 smooth, vellowish-white ; anal tuft narrow. Fore wings 

 moderately broad, costa arched; apex bluntly angulated, 

 almost rounded ; hind margin curved and obliijue ; dorsal 

 margin almost straight, softly ciliated ; colour soft silky 

 whitish-bufF, or very iiale brownish-ochreous ; first and 

 second lines, and intermediate central line, all obli([ue. nearly 

 parallel and of similar thickness — faint slender stripes of 

 deeper brownish-ochreous — outside these is another similar 

 line, but still more faint : neither of them is darkened or 

 thickened on the costa ; there is no disail spot, or if one is 

 occasionally visible it is only as a minute elongated dot of 

 the same colour as the transverse lines; the margin also is 

 devoid of dots; cilia ochreous-white. Hind wings of the 

 same colour, equally silky, and having three similar trans- 

 verse stripes so faint as to be only just perceptible ; no central 

 spot, nor mai-ginal dots; cilia whitish-ochreous. Female 

 quite similar. 



