^26 LEPIDOPTERA. 



plentiful in the country lanes, leather common in some 

 parts of the south of Scotland, and having an extensive 

 range in that country to ^[oray and the Hebrides. In Ireland 

 it seems to be locally abundant in the south-west, and in 

 most of the western and northern counties. 



Abroad it has a wide range through Central and Northern 

 l"]urope, the northern half of Italy, Dalmatia, Southern 

 {{iissia, Bithynia, Asia Minor, Armenia. Tartarv. and the 

 Central .\siau mountain districts. 



3. E. albulata, -SVA///: — Expanse \ to \ inch (18 to 

 22 mm.). Fore wings white, repeatedly barred with irregular 

 pale umbreous or pale grey stripes. Hind wings white, with 

 i'aint smoky clouding. 



Antennae simple, ciliated, dark brown in front, the back 

 white ; palpi minute, black-brown ; face smoky-brown, whiter 

 below, top of the head white ; thorax white clouded with 

 brown ; abdomen also white, barred on each segment with 

 pale grey-brown; lateral tufts small; anal tuft spreading. 

 Fore wings broadly trigonate ; costa liatlj' arched ; apex 

 angulated ; hind and dor.«al margins very gently rounded ; 

 white, repeatedly banded with pale grey-brown as follows: — 

 basal line slender and faint, but curved, closely followed by 

 a parallel similar line; first lino rather erect, most distinctly 

 indicated on the costal and dorsal margins, and by a dot on 

 the median nervure ; second line erect, sinuous, forming the 

 outer edge of a double stripe which completely crosses the 

 wing : outside this the ground colour appears more distinctly 

 in a white rivulet stripe, and this is followed by an abundantly 

 indented and rippled stripe of the darker colour, edged by 

 the rippled white subterminal line ; along the whole hind 

 margin is another narrow dark stri])e, rather blackened above 

 the middle; extreme hind margin edged with thick black 

 streaks; cilia dusky white, intersected and clouded with 

 smoky-brown, ilind wings rather elongated, rounded behind, 

 greyish-while with an obscure whiter central band ; hind- 



