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cultivated ground nor meadows ; but in great abundance in 

 sandy or chalky fields near the sea, or elsewhere in rough fields, 

 and on hill sides, and railway embankments. Very abundant 

 in the Eastern Counties, especially near the sea, also in many 

 parts of the South Coast to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, and 

 in the Isle of Wight \ but apparently absent from many more 

 inland districts. Found in Cambridgeshire, Worcestershire, 

 and Herefordshire, and more rarely in Staffordshire, War- 

 wickshire and Lincolnshire ; farther north it becomes rather 

 commoner in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire ; abundant 

 in Durham and extending into Northumberland. Probably 

 also along the coast of South Wales, since it is rather com- 

 mon in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland much more local, but 

 found in Ayrshire, Renfrew, and elsewhere in the Clyde 

 district, and in those of the Solway and Tweed ; probably in 

 such other suitable spots as occur near flat coasts, being found 

 even in the Orkneys. Local in Ireland, and scarce inland, 

 but found near the coast, sometimes abundantly, in the 

 Counties of Dublin, Wicklow, Kerry, Galway, Louth, Donegal 

 and Londonderry ; inland in Westmeath. Its range abroad 

 is wide — over the temperate portions of Northern Europe, 

 Central Europe, Northern Italy, Portugal, Southern Russia, 

 Armenia, and the mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



5. M. captiuncula, Tv. ; expolita, Sfn. — Expanse § to 

 I inch. Fore wings black-brown or red-brown ; an obscure, 

 rather angulated paler band beyond the middle ; hind wings 

 black-brown. Almost, if not qiiite, our smallest native 

 Nodua. 



Antennae of the male simple, minutely ciliated, dark brown ; 

 palpi small, loosely tufted, black-brown ; head and thorax 

 rather loosely scaled, dark smoky-brown, back crest minute, 

 tipped with black ; fascicles smoky-grey ; abdomen leaden- 

 brown with three rather tall dorsal crests ; lateral tufts 

 minute ; anal tuft loose, light brown or smoky-brown. Fore 

 wiugs very sliort, moderately broad behind, costa faintly 



