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soil as to allow of the natural growth of the wild clematis ; 

 aud is in consequence local, in some districts extremal}' so. 

 In such suitable places it either is, or has been, taken in 

 Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucester- 

 shire, Bucks, Oxfoi-dshire, Berks, Middlesex, Essex, Sutiblk, 

 Cambridgeshire, and Herefordshire ; it almost certainly' 

 exists in Wilts, and very probably in Devon. In South Wales 

 Mr. N'ivian has found it in Glamorganshire; and this, so far as 

 I can ascertain with anj' degree of certainty, is the extent of 

 its range in these Islands. 



Abroad it seems to be distributed over the greater part of 

 the Continent of Europe but especially the Central and 

 Southern portions, also found in Bithynia, Asia iliiior, 

 Tartary, Western China, aud Japan ; aud I have several 

 specimens from South Africa. 



5. P. tersata, Bchiff. — Expanse 1 ^ to 1^ inch. Wings all 

 pale umbreous or dull pale brown, with blackish marginal 

 indications of obscure transverse lines ; towards the hind 

 margins are some slender rippled brown lines. 



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

 pointed, rather prominent, black-brown ; face black at the 

 base, above, with the head, pale bi-own dusted with darker ; 

 abdomen umbreous, the basal segment barred at the back 

 with black, and the following segments dotted along the 

 dorsal ridge with the same colour ; lateral and anal tufts light 

 brown. Fore wings rather elongate but broad ; costa very 

 little arched except at the base and apex, which last is bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin rather oblique, very faintly curved 

 and slightly elbowed in the middle ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; general colour pale umbreous ; basal line curved, 

 obscure, black-brown faintly edged with white ; first line 

 very oblique, curved, but only faintly perceptible, except at 

 its extremities, black-brown ; second line equally obscure 

 more oblique and rather notched, often more blackened in its 

 upper half ; beyond this some faint fulvous-brown cloudy lines 



