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found in secluded spots on the chalk hills of other counties 

 in the South of England ; but this appears to be the extent 

 of its range in these islands. Abroad it has a wide distri- 

 bution through Central and Southern Europe, including 

 Turkey and Spain ; Corsica, Livonia, Sweden, Asia Minor, 

 Armenia, Tartary, Japan, and the Barbary States. 



17. A. immorata, L. — Expanse 1 inch. All the wings 

 broad and blunt ; pale grey, dusted with white, and plentfully 

 with dark grey, ornamented to the middle with rippled grey- 

 brown transverse stripes, and beyond with a broad similar 

 band through which runs a white undulating subterminal 

 line. 



Antennae of the male short, rather thick and densely 

 ciliated, brown, barred at the back with white ; palpi rather 

 projecting, purple-brown ; face black-brown, edged with 

 white ; eyes deep black ; to]) of the head, thorax, and abdo- 

 men pale olive-grey, abunJuatly dusted with black, and the 

 latter barred on the middle segments with black ; tufts small. 

 Fore wings broad and blunt ; costa arched ; apex squarely 

 angulated ; hind margin not very oblique, but well rounded ; 

 dorsal margin a little so, and fully ciliated ; pale olive-grey, 

 dusted with white and abundantly with black atoms ; iii'st 

 line rather erect, curved back at the costa ; second very much 

 rippled and thrown into short angles ; the central line, 

 between these, almost as irregular, all grey-brown, and each 

 edged outwardly by a stripe of whitish clouding ; beyond the 

 second line is a broad, cloudy grey-brown band almost 

 occujning the whole hind marginal area, but sharply divided 

 liy the subterminal line, which is white, very irregular, 

 almost consisting of a connected row of angulated spots ; 

 cilia olive-brown, spotted with white and smoky-black. Hind 

 wings broad and rounded, but the hind margin a little 

 sinuous, and the anal angle S(|uared ; of the same colour and 

 dusting as the fore wings, and with similar irregular transverse 

 cloudy stripes ; a broad cloudy grey-brown band occupying the 



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