46 LEPIDOI'TERA. 



inlaud in some parts of North Wales. In Ireland rather 

 plentiful on the coast near Dublin, and tolerably cotnmon in 

 the outskirts of that city itself ; also upon the south coast 

 from Wicklow to Kerry ; in Gahvay, and Down, and very 

 probably in other seaside districts. Abroad it does not 

 manifest equal preference for the neighbourhood of the sea, 

 but is found extensively in Central and Southern Europe, 

 Corsica, Livonia, Bithynia, Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia, and 

 the mountain regions of Central Asia. 



IG. A. ornata, ^n,)^. — Expanse 1 inch. All the wings 

 clear silky snowy white ; each wing having beyond the 

 middle two fulvous blotches, edged behind with black, and 

 united by jjaler yellowish-grey clouds. 



Antennfe of the male short, rather thick, densely ciliated, 

 but simple. ])ale brown ; palpi of the same colour, small, 

 rather curved ; tongue well developed ; eyes deep black ; 

 face black-brown ; top of the head snowy-wliite ; neck-ridge 

 pale brown ; thorax and abdomen slender, smooth, snowy- 

 white ; lateral tufts verj- small : anal tuft rather compressed. 

 Fore wings somewhat elongate ; costa arched ; apex angu- 

 lated ; hind margin beneath it very slightly retuse, then 

 gently curved and oblicjue; dorsal margin rather rolled up 

 and strongly ciliated ; colour shining snow-white ; first line 

 obscure, oblique, composed of faint brown atoms; central 

 shade also oblique. Ijut only indicated by a faint cloudy 

 yellowish line ; second line placed far back, undulating, 

 slender, black-brown, but only faintly visible, except at its 

 origin on the costa and at the liack of two large blotches 

 formed of pairs of fulvous clouds, one close to the anal angle, 

 the other, broader, above the middle ; between these are 

 smaller and much fainter yellowish-grey clouds, and imme- 

 diately beyond them a parallel stripe of similar small clouds, 

 near to the hind margin ; cilia white faintly clouded or 

 prettily streaked with brown. Hind wings rather narrow, 

 their hind margins flatly scalloped; shining snow-white; 



