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about is rather late dusk, and it may theu betaken around the 

 bi'oom l)uslies. 'Whether it sits upon them late at night, like 

 its congener, is unknown to me. Never, apparently, to be 

 found in any great numbers, and in my own experience scarce, 

 yet there seem to be spots wliere it is not so. h''ormerly it 

 was found in places so close to London as Wanstead, where 

 its haunts are now completely built over. Barnes Common and 

 Wandsworth. Still to be found in other parts of Surrey and 

 Essex, and in Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Devon, Somerset, 

 Suffolk, Noi'folk, Herefordshire ; rarely in Leicestershire and 

 Staffordshire, once in Yorkshire and once in Cumberland. 

 Mr. A. E. Hudd tells me that it is not uncommon in South 

 Wales, and Mr. Vivian has found it in Glamorganshire, bat 

 I find no record for the north of the Principality. In Scot- 

 laud it is found in the South-west, in the Solway district aad 

 in Ayrshire ; and is more common in I'erthshire, Aberdeen- 

 shire, Ross-shire and Moray. Apparently not observed in 

 Ireland. Abroad its range is not very extensive, but it is 

 found throughout Central Europe, Southern Spain, C'entral 

 and Northern Italy. Ixoumania, and liitlivnia. 



<ienus 2.-.. ANAITIS. 



AntennEB naked, long ; jialpi pointed ; head crowned with 

 long projecting scales ; thorax rough, strongly built ; abdo- 

 men rather robust, elongated, and pointed in the female : 

 fore wings broadly trigonate, ]iointed, almost falcate ; hind 

 long and rather narrow, creuulated behind, vein I very short, 

 veins 2 and 3 branching off at but a shoi-t distance from the 

 base. 



We have bnt one species. 



1. A. plagiata, L. -Expanse I] to I ;;■ inch. Fore 

 wings long and pointed, very pale bluish-grey : crossing the 

 middle are two narrow, siuuous. slate-grey stripes, darkened 

 on the nervures; beyond is often another, and an oblique 



