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Dr. White recorded it in Scotland iu the district of the 

 Tweed, probably from the same cause. The record for Ire- 

 land is apparently an error. 



Abroad it is found over the greater portion of Central 

 Europe, middle and northern Italj', North-eastei'n Turkey, 

 Armenia, Tartary, Central China, the Isle of Askold, and 

 Japan with Yesso. 



Genus IG. CAMPTOGRAMMA. 



Antenna? simple ; palpi projecting ; head smooth ; thorax 

 roughened ; abdomen smooth and short ; fore wings broad, 

 the apex acute, and sometimes the hind margin beneath it a 

 little refuse, below expanded, faintly crenulated ; hind wings 

 broad, scalloped behind, a deeper and broader excavation 

 near the anal angle, which is sharply defined. 



We have but one species. 



1. C. bilineata, L. — Exi)anse 1 to 1] inch. Fore wings 

 bright yellow, rippled all over with scalloped yellow-brown 

 transverse lines ; central band obscure or else marked by 

 cloudy black stripes or shades. Hind wings orange-yellow 

 with faint scalloped lines. 



Antennas of the male simple, short, minutely ciliated, 

 yellow, back of the shaft brown ; palpi projecting, pointed, 

 yellow-brown ; eyes light brown ; face dull pale brown ; 

 head, neck-ridge and thorax j^ellow ; abdomen rather cylin- 

 drical, brownish-yellow, the edges of the segments white ; 

 anal tuft short, whitish-brown. Fore wings short and broad ; 

 costa arched, especially at the liase and toward the apex, 

 which last is sharply angulated ; hind margin beneath it 

 perpendicular or even a little refuse, full below and curved 

 off toward the anal angle, which is well developed ; dorsal 

 margin a little rounded; colour bright rich yellow; basal 

 line very faintly brown, enclosing two still less visible 

 threads ; first line rather upright, curved, indistinctly brown, 



