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the leaves of tall reeds in fen districts. Abundant in 

 meadows, marshes, woods, and indeed almost everywhere 

 in England, Wales, and Ireland, and in Scotland to Arran, 

 West Ross and Moray, also occurring rarely in Shetland. 

 It does not seem to love mountain districts, and is hardly 

 found more than 600 ft. above the sea level. Abroad it has 

 an immense range — all the temperate portions of Northern 

 Europe, Central Europe, North Italy, Northern and Western 

 Turkey, Southern Russia, Armenia, China, Canada, and 

 North America generally. 



4. L. favicolor. — Expanse Ij to If inch. Fore wings 

 pointed, rather broad behind, yellow-brown or honey-colour ; 

 two or more faint black dots in the place of the second line ; 

 hind wings smoky-white. 



Antennas of the male simple, ciliated toward the base 

 with minute tufts of bristles, beyond this with minute single 

 bristles only, pale buff'; eyes hairy; palpi densely tufted, 

 apical joint nearly concealed, brownish-buff'; head of the 

 same colour; thorax rather robust, brownish-buff in front, 

 paler buff or honey-colour toward the back ; shoulder-lappets 

 a little raised and finished off" with long scales lying back ; 

 fascicles white, curved so as to meet on the base of the 

 abdomen, where also is an abundance of long white scales 

 covering its first segments; rest of abdomen buff"; lateral 

 tufts large, tinged with yellow and grey ; anal tufts yellowish- 

 buff". Fore wings rather broader than in L. j^cdlens and 

 more pointed at the apex, more of the shape of those of 

 L. straminea ; costal and dorsal margins nearly straight ; 

 apex acute ; hind margin below it oblique and faintly 

 hollowed but rounded off at the anal angle ; entire 

 surface smooth soft honey-colour or colour of the honey- 

 comb, having the nervures faintly perceptible, but not paler ; 

 at the apex of the discal cell is a round black dot, and two 

 more are placed as an indication of the usual second line, 

 which is further indicated by very faint blackish dashes, 



