234 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Abroad it is found on tlie mountains of Central and North- 

 east Germany and tlie whole Alpine region, also in Livonia 

 and Lapland. 



G. E. unifasciata, Haw. — Expanse ,; to 1 inch. Fore 

 wings brownish-white, with a black-brown central band, 

 ochreous-browu basal and outer bands, and very sinuous 

 white rivulet stripe. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, white abundantly 

 barred with browu ; palpi very short, dark brown ; face, 

 head, and neck-ridge whitish-brown, dusted with black ; 

 thorax brownish-white, dusted with ilark lirown : abdomen 

 shining brownish-white; lateral and anal tufts paler, spread- 

 ing. Fore wings rather trigonate ; costa decidedly arched 

 at the base and apex, more gently so between ; tip angulated ; 

 hind margin olilique and slightly rounded ; dorsal margin 

 straight; groutid colour brownish-white, tuuch concealed by 

 rich Ijrown clouding: base clouded with pale brown; basal 

 line slender, anjculated. brown; iuimediateh' outside it is a 

 broad whiti.sli-browu stripe, blackened a little on either 

 margin and followed by a slender brown jjarallel line ; close 

 to this is the usual first line, quite paralhd, formed of black- 

 brown dusting ; second line not far beyond it, more oblique, 

 strongly angulated in the middle, black -browu ; the space 

 enclosed between these two lines forms a rather narrow 

 biack-brown or olive-brown central l)aud, broadest on the 

 costa; this is followed by the rivulet stri])e, very sinuous, 

 while, intersected and sharply defined by dark-brown slender 

 lines; beyond is another brown or ochreous-brown stripe, 

 l)lacker and thrown out into jKiints above the middle, 

 edged by the subterminal line, which is white and scalloped 

 throMtrhout ; hind-marj'inal reuion shaded with browu on the 

 whiter ground, sometimes dark brown and forming a fourth 

 stripe, having in its upper portion an elongated black spot, 

 to which is joined a smaller black spot or streak running into 

 the tip of the wing; extreme hind margin edged with black 



