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rarely in the most northern counties ; also in all probability 

 in most parts of Wales, but I only find it recorded by Mr. 

 \'ivian in Glamorganshire, by Mr. A. 0. Walker in Denbigli 

 and Flint, and by myself in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland 

 mainly confined to the south — taken about Hawick and in 

 Fife, also in Clydesdale; and in Perthshire Sir Thos. Moncrietie 

 stated that it arrived at Moncriett'e Hill in 1872, and had 

 from that time inhabited the neighbourhood. Very local 

 in Ireland, found at Tore, Kerry, and in the north at Belfast 

 and Londonderry. 



Abroad it has a wide range, through Central Europe, 

 the temperate portions of Northern Europe, Southern Spain, 

 Central and Northern Italy, Cor.^ica, Roumania, South- 

 eastern Russia, the mountainous regions of Central Asia, and 

 Algeria in the north of Africa. 



5. E. ericetata, Ciid.\ minorata, BtinnL Cut. — Expanse 

 j to 'i inch (1-j to 18 mm.j. Foi'e wings white, with three 

 or four mottled transverse slate-grey bauds, the outermost 

 divided by a white line. Hind wings smoky-white. 



Antennai of the male simple, ciliated, shining, black- 

 brown ; palpi minute, black, tipped with white ; face and 

 head smooth, shining white, clouded with grey ; neck-ridge 

 and thorax wliite, dusted with black in front, and the latter 

 edged with the same behind ; abdomen small and slender, 

 white, barred on every segment with grey-black ; lateral and 

 anal tufts spreading. Fore wings small and rather narrow ; 

 costa very flatly arched throughout, almost straight; apex 

 sharply angulated ; hind margin obli(|ue and gently curved ; 

 dorsal margin also a little rounded ; white repeatedly banded 

 and lined vvith slate-grey or brownish-grey; basal line 

 slender, angulated, blackish-grey enclosing a grey-brown 

 patch ; immediately outside it is a broader curved grey stripe 

 followed by a very slender similar one ; this is succeeded by 

 the first line, rather curved, obscure, mainly indicated by a 

 black cloud on the costa, a black spot on the median nervure 



