TO LEriDOPTERA. 



in Berwicksliire and Roxburghshire, and tlience through the 

 Clyde Valle}' ; also eastward to Moray, where it is common, 

 yet which seems to be its northern limit. In Ireland it 

 appears to be ver_y rare inland, but is certainly common on 

 the coasts of Dublin, Cork, Kerry, Louth, Sligo, Antrim, 

 Londonderry, and Donegal ; inland found more rarely in 

 Westmeath. Abroad it has a wide range — Northern France, 

 Holland, North and South Cermany, Livonia, Dalmatia, the 

 Ural Mountain district, Armenia, and the mountain regions 

 of Central Asia. 



2, M. strigilis, Clcrch. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 whitish-grey or whitish-brown, central band black or brown ; 

 both upper stigmata small and pale ; a white lunate blotch 

 near the anal angle ; hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antenna^ of the male thick and rather short, minutely 

 notched and very faintly ciliated, dark brown ; palpi rather 

 long, with prominent apical joint, outwardly black-brown, 

 very pale within ; head densely tufted, dusky white, but the 

 tufts tipped with dark brown ; collar similar, but more 

 plentifully dusted with brown and black ; remainder of thorax 

 black-brown, dusted with white or reddish-brown, crests 

 similar but obscure ; fascicles smoky-grey ; abdomen grey- 

 brown with a dorsal series of rather fugitive crests tipped 

 with black, one on each segment except the anal, but those 

 on the middle segments the largest ; lateral tufts very small ; 

 anal tuft spreading, but narrow at the base. Fore wings 

 short, narrow, rather broader behind ; costa almost straight 

 to near the apex, which is bluntly rounded ; hind margin 

 faintly crenulated, very little curved, but slightly bent below 

 the middle and hollowed just above the anal angle ; dorsal 

 margin straight ; colour some shade of whitish-grey, whitis^h- 

 brown, or purple-brown, marbled with darker ; basal line 

 indicated by a short angulated black streak from the costa ; 

 first line black, broken at the nervures and edged inwardly 

 with uhite; second line a graceful curved series of black 



