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provinces of the Tweed. Solvvay and Clyde, with the note ''1 

 have not seen it." In Ireland it is more widely distributed 

 in Wicklow, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Clare, Gal way, Cavau. 

 Westmeath. Monaghan, and Tyrone. Abroad it inhabits 

 Central Euroiie, Northern Italy, Livonia, Finland, the Ural 

 Mountain district, India and Western China. 



-">. L. polycommata, Srliilj. — I'jxpausi- 1{ inch. Fore 

 wings lonn', glossy, brownish-wliite ; central band rich brown, 

 divided toward the costa. Hind wings white, shaded with 

 grey ; winglets of the male narrow and very small. 



Antenna' of the male simple, rather thick, ciliated, reddish- 

 brown, palpi short and blunt, dark chocolate ; lower portion 

 of the face drab, upper part and between the antenna) choco- 

 late-brown; back |iortion, neck-ridge and collar rather paler; 

 thorax whitish-brown, dusted with chocolate ; abdomen 

 slender and small, very silky, pale yellow-brown ; dorsal 

 tufts hardly perceptible ; lateral and anal tufts small. Fore 

 wings long, costa strongly arched ; apex rounded ; hind 

 margin very oblicpie and rather straight ; dorsal margin 

 short but filled out ; brownish-white softly clouded with 

 fawn-colour ; basal line slender, incoiii])lete, red-brown ; first 

 line strongly bent or curved outwardly, forming the inner 

 margin of a central red-brown l)and of no great breadth, 

 widely opened in the middle toward the costa. so as to 

 enclose a patch of the ground colour; on the dorsal margin 

 it has a similar but smaller opening ; the outer edge of this 

 baud is the second line, rather iibli(|ue and strongly bent 

 back near the costa ; beyond this is a parallel, but more or 

 less incomplete, stripe of the same rich brown, sometimes 

 only distinctly visible in two brown blotches, one at the anal 

 angle, the other above the middle, but occasionally complete 

 and well marked, more often obscure or nearly absent ; this 

 is edged outside by the subterminal line, of a dull white, 

 smooth, even, and but little waved ; across both a broad 

 curved stripe of the whitish ground colour passrs from the 



