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it has a wide range in the Principality. In Scotland the 

 only record seems to be in the Solway district, and to require 

 confirmation ; in Ireland it is well distributed in the Counties 

 of Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Westmeath, and 

 King's County, and is sometimes abundant. Abroad its 

 range is through Central Europe, the temperate portions of 

 Northern Europe, the Northern half of Italy, Dalmatia, the 

 Ural Mountain districts, and Tartary. 



20. A. remutaria, Hi(b. — Expanse 1 to 1} inch. Fore 

 wings rather pointed ; all the wings silky yellowish-white, 

 with a faint central brown or black dot, and four irregular, 

 obscure, smok^'-grey transverse lines, those beyond the 

 middle much rippled. 



Antenna3 of the male simple, thickly ciliated, pale brown ; 

 palpi small, similar in colour ; eyes leaden-black ; face dark 

 chocolate ; top of the head white ; neck-ridge brown ; thorax 

 yellowish-white ; abdomen long and slender, of the same 

 colour but dusted and faintlj' barred with pale grey-brown ; 

 lateral tufts well developed, white ; anal tuft compressed. 

 Fore wings rather narrow at the base, moderately Ijroad 

 behind ; costa long and very Hatly arched ; apex angulated ; 

 hind margin rather oblique and nearly straight ; dorsal 

 margin a little filled out and strongly ciliated ; colour creamy- 

 white with a faint brownish tinge toward the costa ; first 

 line oblique, slender and very faint, pale brown ; central line 

 or shade broader, rather distinct, curved, but more erect ; 

 second line oblique, slender, undulating and indented, but 

 only faintly marked, both of the same faint pale brown ; and 

 a slender shadowy stripe of the same colour lies near the 

 hind margin, which at its extreme edge is dotted with brown ; 

 cilia silky j-ellowish-white. Hind wings broad, rounded 

 behind, but the margin almost bluntly bent in the middle ; 

 of the same creamy-white, and with similar stripes, the first, 

 which lies transversely^ before the middle, being the most 

 distinct ; this is followed by an obscure central black dot, 



