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in the immediate ueiglibourliood of the fens ; in the west it 

 more ijarticularly frequents the marshes which lie among the 

 Cotswolds, and in Herefordshire ; in the Midlands extremely 

 local but found in Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, 

 and Staffordshire, and similarly northward in Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumberland. In Wales Mr. 

 Vivian records it in Glamorganshire, I have found it in Pem- 

 brokeshire, and it must surely have some more considerable 

 distribution. In Scotland it exists at Luffness, near Edin- 

 burgh, and elsewhere in Fife ; in Aberdeenshire, Renfrew, 

 Wigtown, Argyle, Perthshire, Inverness, and Moray. In 

 Ireland it is found in Cork County, Wicklow, Kerry, Clare, 

 Galway, Louth, Cavan, and Tyrone ; in Antrim in abundance 

 in the meadows bordering the Lagan; in plenty in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Eaniskillen, and rarely at Derry. Abroad it is 

 present in all the temperate portions of Northern Europe, 

 including South Lapland, Holland, and South Eastern Russia ; 

 and doubtless other counties, but the records seem dubious. 



Here it is often mistaken for the last species, for reasons 

 already stated. 



4. P. vitalbata, ,SV/( //.—Expanse 1] inch. Fore wings 

 whitish-brown ; from the middle of the dorsal margin a 

 broad ill-defined dark umbreous stripe passes to the hind 

 margin below the apex. Hind wings whitish-brown with 

 slender umbreous cross-lines. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, light brown ; palpi 

 slender, rather projecting, black-brown ; face convex, black- 

 brown, barred with pale brown ; head and neck-ridge grey- 

 brown ; thorax whitish-brown with a black bar across the 

 collar ; abdomen rather short, black-brown, but the basal, and 

 also the anal segment with the tuft, pale brown. Fore wings 

 elongated ; costa nearly straight, only faintly arched at the 

 base and apex, the last named bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin quite oblique, very little curved, but faintly elbowed 

 in the middle ; dorsal margin rounded ; colour whitish-brown 



