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capture." Its favourite haunts seem to be rough fields, 

 grassy banks and hillsides, especially near the coast. The 

 late Mr. John Sang told me, long ago, that at Darlington it 

 was plentiful in one rough field, but that from change in 

 farming operations this field came to be mowed earlier than 

 usual, with the result that the moth totally disappeared from 

 it. Apparently more plentiful about Hartlepool, Black- 

 halls, Castle Eden, and elsewhere in Durham, than anywhere 

 else in England, but found also locally in Northumberland, 

 the north border of Lancashire, Whitbarrow, Westmoreland, 

 and once taken at Wharfdale, Yorks. Abundant near 

 Kilcolgan and in Merlin's Park, Galway, and in the County 

 Clare— all in the West of Ireland. In Scotland a single 

 specimen has been recorded as having been taken in Perth- 

 shire. 



Abroad it has a considerable range — the mountains of 

 France, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Styria, Galicia, the Ural 

 Mountain district, and the mountain regions of Central Asia. 

 In all probability M. UioartiUi H.S., from Sicily, is only a 

 still brighter advance upon the Irish form of this species. 



Genus 37. EREMOBIA. 



Antennae notched, ciliated ; eyes naked, with large back 

 lashes ; thorax strongly crested at the back ; abdomen with 

 three to five long and slender crests ; fore wings somewhat 

 trigonate, hind margin expanded ; hind wings broad, vein 5 

 extremely slender, arising from below the middle of the 

 irossbar. 



We have but a single species. 



I.E. ochroleuca, Esi^. — Expanse 1] to If inch. Fore 

 wings fawn colour, marbled or barred with white ; a light 

 brown spot in the middle of the dorsal margin is broadly 

 edged with white ; hind wings pale brown, with a darker 

 brown border. 



