9o LEPIDOPTERA. 



Mare, Somerset ; in the Isle of Wight ; in Hunts ; Wilts ; 

 Whittlesford and elsewhere in Cambridgeshire; and near 

 Needham Market, Suffolk. Apparently this is the extent of 

 its range in these Islands. Abroad it is found in similar 

 spots throughout the greater part of Central Europe, Southern 

 Sweden and Southern Russia. 



5. N. neurica, Hul. — Expanse 1 to 1] inch. Fore 

 wings short and broad, pale brown with a longitudinal dark 

 brown shade through the middle from the base ; stigmata 

 indicated by black dots ; hind wings smoky-white. Female 

 with fore wings darker and more unicolorous, and with a 

 longer abdomen. 



Antennas of the male simple, finely ciliated, brown ; palpi 

 dark brown, small and very slender ; head light brown above, 

 but in front prominently tufted, blackish-brown ; thorax 

 slender, the collar broad and rather upright, pale purplish- 

 brown; remainder of thorax deeper purplish-brown, rather 

 loosely covered with long scales ; fascicles thin, white ; abdo- 

 men very slender, pale yellowish-brown ; lateral tufts con- 

 spicuous, placed on a raised ridge, anal tuft long, pale 

 purplish-brown. Fore wings short and broad ; costa decidedly 

 curved ; apex bluntly angulated, almost rounded ; hind 

 margin curved and rather full, nearly perpendicular, but 

 more oblique below the middle ; dorsal margin also faintly 

 curved ; colour pale reddish-brown, much dusted with dark 

 brown, and with a broad umbreous shade from the middle of 

 the base down the median nervure to the middle of the hind 

 margin, sometimes spreading widely along it ; at the lower 

 outer angle of the discal cell is a black spot, faintly encircled 

 with white, which represents the reniform stigma, and just 

 beyond it two white dots on nervures ; before it are some- 

 times two or three obscure black dots representing the orbi- 

 cular ; extreme hind margin dotted with black ; cilia dark 

 brown dusted with black. Hind wings rather large, rounded, 

 dusky-white at the base, shading off to pale purple-brown at 



