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one pair of wings. At dusk it tlies very softly and gently. 

 It frequents neglected gardens, and still more lanes and 

 hedgerows where its food plants grow in plenty, and even 

 occasionally the edges of woods. Formerly plentiful in the 

 suburbs of London, now less so, but still existent. Common 

 throughout the south, east, and west of England, and some- 

 times abundant ; less frecpient in Midland districts, and in 

 the north. Probably to be found throughout Wales, but ray 

 only recoi'ds are in Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire, lu 

 Scotland the records are not very general, but it is found in 

 Berwickshire, Clydesdale, Dumbartonshire, and the coast of 

 Aberdeenshire ; and Dr. ^Vhite gives its distribution as " To 

 Dee, Clyde, and West Ross." In Ireland it seems to be more 

 especially attached to the coast, but is found in Dublin 

 Count)-, Wicklow, Waterford, Kildare, Calway, Westmeath, 

 Sligo, Armagh, Antrim, Derry, and Donegal. Abroad its 

 range is through Central, Northern, and South-eastern 

 Europe, Central and Northern Italy, Bithynia, Tartary, and 

 the mountain regions of Central Asia. 



11. C. populata, L. — Expanse 1 to 1;^ iuch. Pore wings 

 long, pointed, pale or rich ochreous, markings pale or dark 

 tawny or orange-brown ; central band broad with a strong 

 projection behind ; hind margin clouiled ; cilia plain. Hind 

 wings creamy white. 



Antenna3 of the male simple, ciliated, brownish-yellow; 

 palpi long, porrected, pale tawny ; face, head and neck-ridge 

 brownish-j'ellow ; thorax similar, more tawny in front, the 

 tuft at the liack very short; abdomen slender, straw-colour; 

 lateral and anal tufts well developed. Fore wings ]iointed, 

 pyraliform ; costa strongly arched ; apex sharply angulated ; 

 hind margin just beneath it refuse, thence rounded and 

 rather full ; dorsal margin almost straight : colour silky pale 

 ochreous, shaded with tawny ; basal line erect, angulated and 

 indented, rather thick, pale oi-ange-brown ; the enclosed 

 basal sjiace shaded with red-brown ; first Hue almost parallel 



