138 LEPWOPTERA. 



I'Vi'iiianaf,'!), Down, Ainiagh, and Antrim. Abroad it has a 

 wide distribution ; Central Europe, Northern Italy, Corsica, 

 Sicily, Ualmatia, Livonia, Finland, Southern and Eastern 

 Russia, Bithynia, and the mountain regions of Central 

 Asia. 



5. A. berberata, Srhiff. — Expanse IJ to IJ inch. Fore 

 wings whitish-brown, with two oldique dark brown stripes 

 in the basal half, an angulated black line from the costa 

 beyond, and a notched black line running into the apex. 

 Ilind wings brownish-white. 



Antenniu of the male rather thick, simple, ciliated, pale 

 brown ; ])alpi projecting, black-brown ; head grey-brown ; 

 eyes black ; thora.x light brown, collar edged with black, 

 and another black bar crosses the middle of the back and 

 the shoulder lappets ; at the back is a thick prostrate tuft of 

 scales tipped with black-brown ; abdomen white, dusted with 

 •brown, and each segment edged with black-brown ; anal 

 tuft spreading, a black spot on its base. Costa of the fore- 

 wings evenly and very faintly arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; 

 liind margin gently curved; dorsal margin also; colour 

 greyish-white or brownish-white, with faint yellow-brown 

 clouding; basal blutch smoky-brown, edged by a rather 

 ol)li()ue purple-brown strijie which is bonlered on both sides 

 with black ; first line black, oblique and rather sinuous, 

 forming the inner edge of a narrow reddisli-umbreous stripe 

 which is bluntly angulated in the middle of its outer edge; 

 the space between this stripe and the basal blotch filled in 

 with faint light brown lines and clouds ; second line in its 

 costal half black, slender, and two or three times angulated, 

 its remaining portion slender and indistinct but much angu- 

 lated and pointed on the nervures ; just within is a partially 

 ])arallel fainter brown line ; beyond the second line is a pale 

 umbreous cloud on the costa edged below by a dark unibreous 

 or black streak having blacker notches, which runs into the 

 apex of the wing; subterminal line rippled, very faintly and 



