334 LRPinOPTRRA. 



for its contimiPtl rarity and occasional disappearance. There 

 are records of its capture in all the south coast counties from 

 Kent to Cornwall ; in the east to Norfolk and Canibridge- 

 shiro ; in the west to Somerset and Lancashire ; in Berks, 

 Middlesex, and Surrey ; also of two specimens in Yorkshire. 

 In Wales in (ilamorganshire and Pembrokeshire, and once at 

 Rhyl, Flintshire; and in Ireland near Dublin, and in Cork. 

 Limerick, d'alway, Slif^o, Antrim and Derry. Abroad, 

 doubtless from its migratory Iiabits, it has an enormous 

 range, through Southern Plurope — at Gibraltar it may be 

 taken, occasionally, almost throughout the year — a large 

 portion of Central l']urope, 15ithynia, Armenia, Syria, the 

 Caucasus, Ceylon. India. iJuinia. Thibet, Eastern and Western 

 China, the Corea. Japan, the Cape de Vei'de Isles, iladeira. 

 Lgypt, South Africa, the ^liddle, Western, and Southern 

 United States of America, also New Lnglaiul, New ^'m-k, 

 and Canada; and in Chili aiul ,\rgentina. 



2. P. polygrammata. y.'i, /, ; conjunctaria, A^ivwr//;. 

 — TLxpanse barely 1 incli. i'ore wings brownish-white ; cen- 

 ti'al band broad, formed of oblicpie parallel umbreous trans- 

 verse lines, darkest on one half of each margin. Hind 

 wings brownish-white. 



Antenna? sini]ile, ciliated, light brown ; palpi projecting, 

 brown ; face and head ])alo umbreous clouded with darker ; 

 neck-ridge and tlinra.x whitish-brown, faintly barred with 

 uudjreous; abdomen short, pale brown, edges of the seg- 

 ments and anal tuft dusky white. Fore wings rather 

 narrowly trigonate ; costa gently arciied ; ape.x: angulated; 

 hind and dorsal margins very gently rounded; brownish- 

 while or e.xtremely pale brown; basal line triple, very 

 obli<pie. faint, umbreous; first line similarly olilique, forming 

 a broad, partially triple, reddish-brown, straight strijie for 

 three-fourths of the distance from the dorsal margin, thence 

 to the costa as a faint curved brown thread; exactly facing 

 the apex of this dark stripe is the conspicuous black discal 



