240 LEPWOPTERA. 



C. T. Cruttwell ; also at Dalmallin, Argyleshire, by ilr. 

 J. J. F. X. King, and Dr. White records it from tlie same 

 districts. In Ireland it is more widely distributed, and has 

 been found in plenty at Killarney, Kerry ; also at Timo- 

 leacue, Cork ; in the mountain districts near Sligo, and in 

 Donegal, Tyrone, Monaghan, and the ilourne Mountains in 

 Down. 



Abroad its range is very extensive ; the mountains of 

 Silesia, Galicia, and Switzerland; Livonia, Norway, Finland, 

 Central IJussia, \\'estern China, Japan, Yesso, and Kiushiu ; 

 also there are specimens, in the National Collection, from 

 North America, 



8. E. blandiata, Srhiff.; adaequata, StujDl. fat. — Ex- 

 panse 'l to ,; inch (18-22 mm.). Fore wings white with a 

 lar^e grey-black costal blotch obscurely continued into a 

 central band ; liind-marginal region dark grey. Hind wings 

 grej'ish-white. 



AntennJE of the male simjile, ciliated, shining brown- 

 black dusted with white ; palpi minute, black, with whiter 

 tips ; face shining white dotted with black ; head rather 

 browner ; thorax white clouded on the collar with black ; 

 abdomen dark brown, dustrd with white ; tufts small, white. 

 Fore wing.s rather pointed ; costa tlatly arched ; apex angu- 

 lated ; hind margin gently curved: dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; shining white ; base of the costa occupied by a 

 black-brown patch which joins a dotted similar basal line ^ 

 first line black, interrupted, but forming a black cloudy spot 

 on the costa, a dot on the median nervure, and a short per- 

 pendicular streak on the dorsal margin ; second line almost 

 parallel, similarly interrupted ; the two enclosing a sort of 

 central band which usually is cpiite incomplete, the part next 

 the costa being a large semi-ovate black-brown blotch and 

 very conspicuous, while in the remainder the dark colouring 

 is limited to the uervures, and sometimes a spot on the 

 dorsal margin ; beyond the second line is a broad stripe of the 



