.j88 i.r.PinoprnRA. 



<lant in Stafioidsliire, Salop. Cheshire, Lancasliire, and York- 

 shire, and occurs in Durham, Xorthiimberland. and Oumbor- 

 land. In AVales I lind it I'ecorded only in (ilainor<.'auahire : 

 in .Scotland in Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Wigtownshire. 

 Perthshire, Ivoss-shire. and Aberdeenshii-e. and Dr. I?uclianan 

 White adds the Clyde \'alley and ^loray. In Irelimd it lia> 

 been very little noticed but is on reconl frciiii Mouaghan and 

 Oalway, and also from Achill Island. 



Abroad it is found in Central France, JSelgiuni. tjernianj-, 

 Switzerland, Galicia. f.ivonia. and South-east Russia ; also in 

 North America, in New York State, JIassachusetts, Maine. 

 New Hampshire, l\akota. Canada, and Alaska. 



1. C. brumata, L. Expanse I lo I] inch. I'\)re wings 

 of the male broadly rounded, thin, light brown clouded with 

 darker and ri])pled with transvei'se brown lines: a faintly 

 darker band in the middle : nervures dotted with sniokv- 

 browii. Hind wings smoky-white. I'emale sub-apterous. 



.Xntenna^ of the male simple, short, and weak, ciliated, pale 

 brown ; ]ial|)i minute, brown ; face convi-x. smoothed down- 

 ward, chocolate-brown, head rough, whitish-brown ; neck- 

 ridge darker : thorax brown, sleiuler. and very weak : aV)domen 

 short and slender, pale brown, tufts very obscure. Fore 

 wings broadly ovate ; costa fully arched ; a]iex rounded ; hind 

 margin gently curved, as also is the dorsal raargiu ; colour 

 light brown, dusted thickly with umbreous : between the base 

 and the middle are two parallel and quite similar threadlike 

 brown lines, faintly emphasised on the nervures; in the 

 middle is a brown band, lying between the brown first and 

 second lines, but usually very ob.scure, or indicated by those 

 lines, which are indented and rather darkei' ; beyond is a 

 dotted dark brown line more in the position of the usual 

 second line, but it edges a broad hind-marginal stripe of 

 rather browner colouring ; all the lines are sufliciently ob- 

 scure; extreme hind margin streaked with black ; cilia pale 

 brown, dappled with darker. Hind wings very thin, rather 



