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out England to Lancashire and Yorkshire, but apparently 

 not farther north, and I know of no record in Scotland. In 

 "Wales I have found it at Pembroke, and feel no doubt of its 

 presence among Typha wherever the plant grows in the 

 Principality. In Ireland it ranges rather farther north, 

 certainly so far as Belfast and Armagh, and is found com- 

 monly in the counties of Wicklow, Cork, Kildare, Tipperary, 

 Limerick, Mayo, Sligo, and Tyrone. Abroad in suitable 

 situations throughout Central Europe, Northern Italy, 

 Southern Sweden, Livonia, and Southern Russia. 



N. geminipuncta, Hatchett. — Expanse 1 to 1| inch. 

 Fore wings short, almost truncate, very silky, yellowish olive- 

 brown, or smoky olive-brown, with two white dots at the end 

 of the discal cell ; hind wings dark brown ; abdomen very 

 long and cylindrical. 



Antenna of the male rather long, simple, minutely ciliated, 

 light brown ; palpi slender, dull brown, darker at the sides, 

 apical joint long and porrected ; head tufted, the scales 

 pointing forward, brown ; thorax reddish-olive-brown, smooth, 

 without crests or markings ; fascicles short, drab-brown ; abdo- 

 men very long and even in thickness, smooth, dull brown, 

 lateral and anal tufts rather spreading, lighter brown. Fore 

 wings silky, short and blunt, almost truncate ; costa some- 

 what arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind margin perpendi- 

 cular and rather full to below the middle, but rounded o£E to 

 the anal angle ; dorsal margin a little filled out and ciliated ; 

 colour olive-brown with a reddish or yellowish gloss or a 

 smoky tinge ; between the subdorsal and median nervures is 

 often a longitudinal olive-yellow stripe or cloud ; the trans- 

 verse lines are not indicated, but in the discal cell the posi- 

 tion of the orbicular stigma is suggested by a black dot, and 

 that of the reniform more distinctly by one or two white spots 

 or dots edged with dark brown, the more conspicuous and 

 constant spot being the lower; nervures slenderly dark 

 brown ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings rather narrow, dark 



