■60 LEPIDOPTERA. 



abundant in Kerry, and is found in Wicklow, T^outh, Galwaj 

 and Sligo. Abroad it has a wide range, through Central 

 Europe, the temperate portions of Northern ]']urope, Southern 

 France, Northern Italy, the Ural Mountain district, Tartarj, 

 and Japan. 



21. A. fumata, iiteph. — Expanse 1 inch. Wings all 

 greyish-white, dusted thickly with grey-brown ; on them 

 are three or four transverse ochreous lines, obscure in the 

 male, more distinct in the smaller female. 



Antenna3 of the male simple, much ciliated, pale brown, 

 barred with darker ; palpi small, oblique, light brown ; eyes 

 [lurple-brown ; face deep purple-brown ; top of" the head and 

 the thorax greyish-white, dusted with brown ; abdomen 

 similar, slender ; lateral and anal tufts well developed. Fore 

 wings rather elongated ; costa gently arched ; apex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin very gentlv and evenly curved, 

 somewhat oblique ; dorsal margin straight ; colour greyish- 

 white, dusted evenly all over with brown or grey- brown, on 

 the costa a little more so; first and second lines slender, 

 oblique, almost parallel, but the second more sinuous, greyish 

 ochreous ; central line a broader and less defined shade of 

 similar dusting, intermediate and nearly parallel ; outside 

 the second line is another, similar but more cloudy, quite 

 parallel and situated midway to the hind margin ; central 

 spot not usually perceptible, when visible a brown dot in the 

 central shade ; cilia coloured and dusted like the wing. 

 Hind wings broad, rounded behind, except that there is a 

 faint suggestion of an angle in the middle of tlie hind 

 margin ; greyish-white dusted with brown, having three 

 •equidistant obscure transverse greyish-ochreous lines, or faint 

 •cloudy stripes, according with those of the fore wings; cilia 

 concolorous. Female smaller ; the apex of the fore wings 

 more ])ointed ; hind wings a little more scpiared behind ; 

 •colour greyish -white, tinged with ochreous, and sometimes 

 much more sparingly dusted with grey-brown ; the central 



