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attached to a small stone or othei- substance in the ground. 

 (AV. Buckler.) 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth hides during the day among dense herbage and 

 in thick buslies, and is a little sluggish, yet may sometimes 

 be disturbed by the beating stick, and so ca|)tured. At 

 about sunset or before dusk it flies in a dancing and very 

 lively manner, now high, now low, along lanes, and the hedges 

 boi'dering fields, or over the bushes in very open woods ; 

 sometimes locally common, occurring in suitable places 

 throughout England, though becoming more local and scarce 

 in the North. In Wales I found it rather plentifully in lanes 

 in Pembrokeshire. Mr. Vivian has taken it in Cilamorsan- 

 shire, and jMr. N. Greening in Flintshire, but I have no 

 record of it elsewhere in the Principality. In Scotland it is 

 widely distributed, though usually scarce, extending to the 

 provinces of the Tay, Dee, and West Ross, and in Moray 

 being of rather large size. Id Ireland it has been found in 

 Westmeath. (ialway, Sligo, Tyrone, Cavan, Donegal, and 

 Derry. 



Abroad it seems to be confined to Holland, Silesia, and 

 other parts of Germanj^. Switzerland, Norway, and La])land. 



2. E. alchemillata, /..— Expanse | inch (18 to 20 m.m.). 

 Fore wings dark brown with marginal indications of white 

 lines near tlie base, and a broad white rivulet stripe beyond 

 the middle, which throws off a rippled white line to the costa. 

 Jlind wings smoky-white. 



Antennae of the male small, simple, ciliated, dull brown; 

 palpi minute, brown tipped with white ; face whitish, dusted 

 with dark brown; top of the head brown; thorax brown 

 thickly dusted with white ; abdomen rather tapering, black- 

 brown, abundantly dusted, and on each segment edged, with 

 white ; tufts very small, the anal tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wings short and broad ; costa arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; 



