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Tlie moth hides during the day in hedges nnd thiclc 

 bnshes. being very fond of wide open spaces, such as 

 commons wliich are bounded by well-grown hedges ; but 

 also to be found in lanes and the borders of woods ; readily 

 disturbed by the beating-stick in the daytime, and very 

 active, flying vigorously to some other,, more distant shelter. 

 At dusk it flies about the same bushes and hedges, and will 

 come to light at night. Rather a local species and rarely in 

 any abundance, but to be found in moderate nu.mbers 

 throughout the Southern and Eastern Counties from Kent to 

 Cornwall, including Berks and Bucks, and to Norfolk and 

 Cambridgeshire ; also, more rarely, in Herefordshire, 

 Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Staftbrdshire, Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, Yorkshire, and even Westmoreland and Cumber- 

 land. In Wales I\[r. Vivian finds it in Glamorganshire, and 

 I have often taken it in Pembrokeshire, in the lanes. It does 

 not seem to be recorded from Scotland. In Ireland it is 

 scarce and very local, but has been taken in Waterford, 

 Kerry, Galway, at I-lnniskillen. Termauagh, and near Belfast. 

 Abroad it maintains its somewhat local character, yet has an 

 extensive distribution — France, Germany, Belgium. Switzer- 

 land, Galicia, Finland, Southern and Western Russia, and 

 Tartary ; and in North America, New England, New York 

 State, and Washington ; also in the very far north-west at 

 Vancouver and elsewhere on the Pacific coast, but it does 

 not seem to be recorded from the vast intermediate. areas. 



Genus 3. ANTICLEA. 



Antenna:; of the male simple ; palpi small, thoi-ax crested 

 in a broad ridge at the back ; abdomen smooth and slender ; 

 fore wings broad behind, trigonate, hind margin even, mark- 

 ings very striking, much disposed in narrow stri])es, without 

 a dark central band. Hind wings rounded, but rather 

 elongated ; vein 5 arising from the middle of the cross-bar ; 



