LA REiVriD.E—LA RENT! A . 1 8 1 



down among the plants, ilost attached to boggy heatlis, 

 open places in damp woods, mosses, moors, and the damp 

 spots on hill-sides, and in sucli suitable places to be iound 

 throughout England, often in plenty ; and probably through- 

 out Wales, though the only records that I find are from 

 Denbigh, Glamorganshire, and Pembrokeshire. In Scotland 

 it is common in Roxburghshire, around Hawick and Ber- 

 wick, and on tlie hills around Edinburgh ; also in Wigtown- 

 shire and the rest of the south-west districts to the Clyde 

 Valley; very plentiful in Perthshire and Aberdeenshire, 

 extending to Moray ; and found in the C)rkneys. In Ireland 

 it is very abundant in the south, and generally distributed 

 to Tyrone, Antrim, and Derry; probably everywhere. 

 Abroad it appears to have but a very local distribution 

 through Central and Southern France, Holland, and the 

 South of Spain. 



Genus 5. LARENTIA. 



Antenna^ of the male simple, short and slender ; palpi of 

 moderate length ; head rather smooth ; thorax flatly crested 

 at the back ; abdomen slender, cylindrical ; fore wings 

 rather broad, faintly crenulated behind ; hind wings elongate, 

 rounded and slightly crenulated ; vein 5 arising from the 

 middle of the crossbar. 



Lakv^ without humps, rather evenly stout, bristly, with 

 bright but rather confused markings. 



Pn'/E in the earth. 



The three species are readily distinguished. 



A. Pore wings banded with Mack, rippled and dotted 



with white. /. insiata. 



A'-. Fore wings banded with black, rippled and dotted 



with yellow. L. Jla rkinrUita. 



A?. Fore wings green with a black-brown bantl. /,. ulirata. 



1. L. csesiata, Srliijf'. — Expanse li to ] ji inch. Fore 



