36o LEriDOPTERA. 



on isolated coast tracts, that it is probably but little interfered 

 with at that season. Its larva is readily beaten out of the 

 food plant, and the vast majority of specimens in collec- 

 tions are reared. It does not seem to frequent the juniper 

 of the southern chalk hills at all. and the few records in 

 southern districts — as in Devon and Sussex — are almost 

 certainly errors arising from confusion of names. On the 

 hills of the north of England- — North Lancashire. West- 

 moreland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland — 

 wherever juniper grows, it is fairly common, ilr. J{. New- 

 stead, Curator of the Chester Museum, has found it near 

 Colwyu Hay, in North Wales : and ^lessrs. Vivian aiid Allen 

 on the coast of Cllamorganshire, South Wales. In Scotland 

 has a wide distribution, being found on the hills of Ber- 

 wickshire, on the I'eutlands in Fife, and onward in tiie east 

 to Aberdeenshire and Moray, while in the west it reaches the 

 Clyde Valley and is found in the Hebrides and the Orkneys. 

 In Ireland it is common on the stunted junipers upon a 

 mountain slope known as Knocknarea. near Sligo : in various 

 parts of the County Gal way. and on the shores of Lough 

 Foyle in Donegal. Abroad also it is commonly a mountain 

 species, found in Switzerland and other parts of the Alps, in 

 the Pyrenees, and in Jielgium, Livonia, and Lapland. 



1. T. juniperata, /,. — E.\-panse f to 1' inch. Fore 

 wings narrow, jiale grey ; basal blotch and central band 

 darker grey or grey-brown, edged with black, and the latter 

 cut U]) or looped with black. Hind wings silky, ])ale smoky- 

 grey. 



Antenmr of the male simple, ciliated, rather short, shining 

 grey-ljrown ; jialpi pointed, black-brown ; face, head, and 

 collar whitish-brown dusted with darker ; thorax grey, the 

 scales of the shoulder-lappets very long; back tuft double 

 but very small and obscure ; abdomen slender, shining grey, 

 dusted with white ; lateral and anal tufts moderately 

 developed. Fore wings narrow ; the costa regularly arched ; 



