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the west of London, that one collector chronicled his own 

 prowess in the capture of 350 specimens in one season. He 

 might the more readily be forgiven, as even then the builder 

 was approaching and the marshes were doomed. In smaller 

 numbers it is still found along the reed-beds of the lower 

 portions of the Thames, in Essex and Kent, and in suitable 

 places in Sussex, Dorset, Devon, Berks, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk (commonly), Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, 

 Durham, Lancashire, Cheshire (commonly), and Dei'byshire, 

 and has even been taken in Warwickshire. I have no record 

 in Wales. In Scotland it has been found in Eoxburghshire, 

 Perthshire, and Aberdeenshire, and Dr. White says, in Shet- 

 land! In Ireland near Dublin, and in Westmeath, Mayo, 

 and Sligo, but is there scarce. Abroad its range is through 

 Holland, Denmark, South Sweden, Germany, and Livonia. 



2. C. brevHinea, Femi. — Expanse 1 J to H inch. Thorax 

 stout; fore wings rather truncate, grey-brown dusted with 

 black ; a black streak at the base, and the transverse lines 

 indicated by black dots ; hind wings smoky-brown. 



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

 rather small, moderately tufted, brown on the inside but 

 outwardly smoky-black ; lashes at the back of the eyes 

 black ; head moderately tufted, drab-brown with a faint 

 reddish tinge ; collar and front of the shoulder-lappets 

 similar ; hinder portion paler and the scales long and loose 

 but faintly drawn together at their tips in a manner sugges- 

 tive of a back crest ; fascicles thick, brownish-white ; abdomen 

 covered toward the base with brownish-white hair-scales, 

 among which are some darker dorsal scales simulating one 

 dorsal crest ; remainder pale drab dusted with brown ; lateral 

 tufts small ; anal tuft broad and spreading, tinged with 

 yellowish-red. Fore wings broad and rather truncate ; costa 

 very gently curved ; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin 

 straight and perpendicular to the middle, below this rounded 

 off; dorsal margin faintly rounded; coloiir reddish-drab 



