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Pembrokeshire, yet there can be no doubt that it is present. 

 at least in the Eastern districts. In Scotland it is local — 

 common at Berwick-on-Tweed ; found in the Edinburgh 

 District ; at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, and at Moncrietl'e 

 Hill, and other places, in tht^ provinces of the Clyde, Forth, 

 Tay and Dee. In Ireland it was recorded by the late Mr. E. 

 BirchalljVet no more recent comfirmation has been obtained, 

 and Mr. Kane is (juite of opinion that the record was au 

 error. Abroad it has a considerable range through Central 

 and Southern Europe, including Spain and Portugal, and at 

 Gibraltar it is abundant ; elsewhere it is found in Livonia, 

 Bithynia, Syria, Asia Minor, and in its whiter variety in 

 Morocco, and Algeria. 



11. A. straminata, Tr. ; marginepunctata, SUyJi. 

 Stn. — Expanse f to i inch. Wings elongated, white, faintly 

 tinged with smoky-brown, and dusted with brown, each with 

 three obscure, oblique, transverse, rippled, smoky-brown 

 lines ; margins distinctly dotted with black. 



Antenna} of the male simple, minutely ciliated, dirty white ; 

 palpi minute, and with the face, dark chocolate ; eyes glossy 

 black ; top of the head white ; neck and thorax whitish- 

 brown ; abdomen smooth, still whiter ; lateral tufts distinct ; 

 anal tuft narrow. Fore wings elongated : costa very flatly 

 arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind margin tolerably 

 oblique, gently curved ; dorsal margin fairly straight, strongly 

 ciliated ; colour brownish-white, faintly browner towards the 

 costa, and dusted with brown or black atoms ; first line 

 usually very faint, placed rather far from the base ; discal 

 spot small but distinct, deep black ; just beyond it is the 

 central line, then the second line, and beyond it two rows of 

 exceedingly faint clouds, all these lines oblique, nearly 

 parallel, rippled, yellow-brown, but all except the second 

 usually very faint ; extreme hind margin regularly dotted 

 with black ; cilia shining, brownish-white. Hind wings of 

 the colour of the fore wings, a little more dusted with black 

 atoms ; central spot a distinctly black dot, followed by three 



