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in Norfolk, and in the western counties, but far less so, and 

 more local in the Midlands and North-west, though frequent in 

 Durham. Probably common throughout Wales, as I found it 

 so in Pembrokeshiri'. and Mr. Vivian in (ilamora'anshire. In 

 Scotland to be found, in the south, from Herwick and Hawick 

 to Wigtown and Clydesdale, also in Aberdeenshire, Inverness. 

 West Ross, and the Orkneys. In Ireland widely distributed 

 and often common, though apjiarently not recorded south of 

 Dublin, where it is very frequent on gas lamps in the outskirts. 

 Abroad its range is throughout Central Europe, the tem- 

 perate portions of Northern Eurojie, Northern Italy, North- 

 east Turkey, and the Ural ]\Iountaiu district. 



o. C. corylata, Thunh. — Expanse 1 J to 1] inch. Fore 

 wings ochreous-white or tawny-white ; central baud narrow, 

 jagged outwardly, often broken, rich brown. Hind wings 

 silky-white. 



Antenna^ of the male simjile, minutely ciliated, brown, 

 faintly barred at the back with white ; paljDi blunt, prominent, 

 light brown ; face, head, and neck-ridge light brown dusted 

 with white ; thorax bright brown much spotted in its middle 

 area with white, the scales at the back formed into a very short 

 blunt crest, often divided, tipped with white; abdomen slender, 

 not very long, whitish-brown, faintly barred on the back with 

 brown, or sometimes with brown-black ; anal tuft very small. 

 Fore wings rather elongated, almost ovate ; costa fully arched; 

 apex bhinfly angulated ; iiind margin smoothly rounded; 

 dorsal margin a little so; colour whitish-tawny, banded with 

 brown ; basal blotch large, rich brown, faintly intersected by 

 a whitish line, and edged by a deeper brown line, which is 

 twice angulated ; first line nearly parallel, erect, deeply 

 indented, usuallv broken near tlie dursal margin ; second 

 line liut a short dislance Iji-yoiid. imne ol)li(|Lie. jagged with 

 external teeth, broken at tiie same situation ; enclosing a 

 rich Ijrowu, broken, or sometimes coni])lete, central baud 

 which is narrower and more jagged than iu some of the allied 



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