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shire, HtMifrcw, the Hdiiibiirgh district. Alierdeenshire, ]'erth- 

 shire and even the Outer Hebrides; and Dr. White gives its 

 range as to the Dee district and the Hebrides. In Ireland it 

 has been found in the Counties Dublin, Down, Westnieath, 

 and Fermanagh. Abroad its range, apparently, is not very 

 wide — South of France, North of Spain, Ifollaud, (lermany, 

 and Livonia. 



2. T. variata, Hehiff. — Expanse 1 to I| inch. Fore 

 wings pale '.iiiibreoiis or greyish-brown ; basal blotch and 

 central band imiiireous, black-brown, or reddish-brown, 

 ta])ering from the c-osta, and slender below the middle, its 

 outer margin toothed. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Anteniue of the male simple, minutely ciliated, l)rown ; 

 palpi rather blunt, dark brown: face, iiead and neck-ridge 

 whitish-brown, dusted with umbreous ; thorax brown, agree- 

 ing ill shade with the fore wings; abdomen slender, dull 

 grey-brown ; lateral tufts conspicuous, ])aler ; anal tuft long. 

 Fore wings rather elongated and pointed ; costa regularly 

 arched ; ape.x angulated ; hind margin oblicpie, gentlj- curved ; 

 dorsal margin also a little tille<l out; jiale uml)reous, pale 

 grey-brown or pale reddisli-Iirown ; basal line much indented, 

 umbreous or red-brown, enclosing a basal blotch of the same 

 colour: first line erect, only a little indented and having a 

 short blunt angle in the middle, blackish-brown or reddisli- 

 brown, fnintly edged with white on the dorsal margin: 

 second line elliowed outwardh' above the middle, otherwise 

 rather evenly curved, black-brown or red-brown ; the inter- 

 mediate central band conspicuously of the same colour, 

 enclosing a cloudy black discal spot, and usually some degree 

 of darkening of the nervures; outwardly this band is more 

 or less edged with white dusting, which also is in some degree 

 diffused ov'er the ])aler portions of the wing; of this also is 

 the rijipled whitish subtermina! line composed; cilia glossy 

 whitish-brown intersected by a smoky-brown line. Hind 

 wings long and rather narrow, rounded behind, pale grey- 



