158 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dark colour, not very conspicuous on the wing. It is also 

 common along the borders of woods, and may be found in 

 neiglibouring lanes where the hedges are thick. In fens it 

 is quite at home, frequenting the little copses locally called 

 " carrs."' Found throughout England in places such as I 

 have described, though becoming more local and less abun- 

 dant in the North ; probably also in most parts of Wales, but 

 my only records are in (ilamorganshire and Pembrokeshire. 

 In Scotland it is less common, but has a similar distribution. 

 to Argyleshire, the Orkneys, ami AV'est ifoss. In Ireland 

 more local, but sometimes plentiful; found in Dublin 

 County, Wicklow, Kerry, Galway, lloscommon, Tyrone, and 

 Down. 



Abroad its range is very extensive through Central and 

 Northern Kurope, Northern Italy, North-eastern Turkey, 

 Southern Russia. Eastern Siberia, Tartary, the mountainous 

 regions of Central Asia, Japan and Vesso ; and in North 

 America through New England, New ^'ork State, IVnn- 

 sylvauia, Canada, and Nova Scotia, to Arctic America. 



5. C. ferrugata, L. — Expanse :,' to 1 inch. Fore wings 

 greyish-oclireous : central band broadly dull purple, preceded 

 and followed by dull jmrple stri])es. Hind wings greyish- 

 white, rippled with grey or jmrplish-grey. 



Antenna' of the male jiectinated with small oblique ciliated 

 teeth, (lark brown; palpi conical, dusky drab ; eyes glisten- 

 ing brown-l)lack ; head and thora.x light ])urpIe-brown, the 

 latter shaded with darker jnirple. l)ut more butt' at the back, 

 and there minutely tufted ; abdomen dusky pale drab ; each 

 segment ornamented with two black dorsal dots ; anal tuft 

 small. Costa of fore wings faintly arched at the base, more 

 strongly so toward the apex, which is bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin hardly curved ; anal angle well formed ; dorsal 

 margin faintly rounded ; colour pale reddish-grey ; basal 

 blotch purple, t'ollowed by a delicate parallel white line, and 

 then by a tawny ])ai-allel double stripe; first line curved. 



