304 LEPinOPTERA. 



fliylit is not rapid, and oaly to a similar shelter; before dusk 

 it Hies of its own accord, very <;'eiitly, alouj< \vood-])aths aud 

 open spaces, aud about the inarfjfius of woods, but keeping 

 always near to its food-plants. I'robably it Hies also at night, 

 but this does not seem ti) liave been much observed. Con- 

 fined to damp woods, but in them widely distributed, and 

 sometimes common in the South of England, more local in 

 the West, and rather scarce in some of the Kastern Counties, 

 and the ilidlauds. Northward it becomes still more local, 

 yet reaches Westmoreland, aud also rarely Northumberland ; 

 but I find no satisfactoiy record across the Scottish border. 

 In Wales it seems to be generally distributed, extending to 

 I't'Uibrokeshire ; in Ireland rather scarce, but found rarely in 

 Wicklow, also in Kerry, (ialway, and Sligo. Abroad it has 

 an extensive range, through Central i']urope. Northern Italy, 

 Ijivouia, ["'inland, and also 'i'artary aud Ja])an. 



I. A. Blomeri, Cuit. — ivxiianse '\ to J inch. lore 

 wings white, dusted with brown ; the lines dotted ; apical 

 region occupied by a large orange-tawny blotch edged at the 

 back with black, liind wings dusky white. 



.\ntenna3 of the male short, simple, ciliated, pale brown, 

 back of the shaft dark ))rown ; palpi very small, pale brown ; 

 face convex, dull cliocolate ; eyes black ; head, neck-ridge, 

 aud thorax cloudy white, abundantly dusted with dark 

 brown; abdomen wliilr, barred on each segment with 

 bi-own ; lateral and anal tufts small. Fore wings rather 

 broad ; costa gently arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin very slightly curved Imt rounded off more toward the 

 anal angle; dorsal margin a little tilled out; colour dull 

 white or greyish-white, or tinged with bluish-grey, dusted with 

 dark brown, especially so toward the costa ; near the base is a 

 faint and ill-defined transverse stripe of pale brown, or some- 

 times an obscure succession of such lines arising from a 

 nioi-e distinct spot on the costa ; this seems to represent the 

 basal line : first line when visiijle, double and composed of 



