368 LEPIDOI'TERA. 



Init not generally distributed and usually cxtivuieiy local, 

 recorded from near Hawick, the Clyde \'alley, Argylesbire, 

 .I'ei'thsliire, Aberdeenshire, and comnioidy, iu a small variety, 

 in the Orkneys. Mr. A. F. (Griffiths has also found it in the 

 Isle of Higg. In Ireland it is rather scarce, but has been 

 taken in Kerry, fJaUvay, Westmeath, Sligo, Tyrone and 

 Armagh. Abroad its range seems to be very small, and 

 almost limited to mountain districts — Switzerland, the 

 Vyi'enees and La|)huid. 



•1. H. impluviata, .s''/////'. ; trifasciata, Stuml. Vat. — 

 Expanse 1 to 1 [ inch. I'ore wings broadly ovate, pale green 

 or dusky green ; near the Ijase is a broad, smoky, lirown- 

 black transverse baud, and beyond the middle another. l;roken 

 up by the groundcolour; below the a])e.\- are several hori- 

 zontal black streaks. Hind wings smoky-white. 



Antenn;e of the male simple, thickly ciliated, dark brown ; 

 palpi slender, projecting, black-brown ; face and head light 

 brown spotted with black ; neck-rid<re and collar greenish- 

 brown with black edging : thorax greeuish-brown, the 

 shoulder-lappets edged with black, back crest distinctly 

 raised, black; al)ilomeu whitish-grey, clouded down the back 

 with black, tufts well developed. Fore wings broadly ovate ; 

 costa very gently arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin curved ami rathei- obliipie ; dorsal margin but slightly 

 rounded ; colour pale greyish- green or dusky green ; on the 

 base of the median nervure is a clouded black spot; basal 

 line very obli(jue, indented, lilack : first line also black, erect, 

 thickened and faintly indented on the nervures. decidedlv 

 thickened on the two margins ; between this and the basal 

 line is a broad dark band, smoky-brown, greenish-brown, or 

 grey-brown, containing a rather moi'e purplish-grey stripe 

 -edged on each side by a black-brown line; second line black, 

 scalloped between the nervures, thickened upon them, and 

 from the middle throwing out an angulated point or tooth ; 

 •Central space or l)and of the ground colour, clouded with grey ; 



