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Walsingham has taken it near Merton, and the Rev, 

 T. H. Marsh at Cawston. It has been found in South 

 Kent, and should occur in any suitable spot in the Southern 

 Counties, though it is, as yet, veiy little observed. There is 

 a record in Cheshire which seems to require confirmation. I 

 know of no other localities within the British Isles. Abroad 

 its range is through Central Europe, South Sweden, Northern 

 Italy, Corsica, Northern Turkey, and Southern Russia. 



7. L. putrescens, Hvh. — Expanse \\ to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings whitish-umbreous, a broad brown-black stripe from 

 the middle of the base broadens as it proceeds, embraces 

 the faint reniform stigma, and beyond it curves up toward 

 the apex of the wing ; a small brown triangle lies at the anal 

 angle. Hind wings white. 



Antennae of the male rather stout, simple, minutely 

 ciliated, light brown ; palpi rather small, narrowly tufted, 

 whitish-drab, apical joint rather depressed ; head whitish- 

 brown with a deep brown bar across the face and another 

 close above the antennae, which have at their bases each 

 a tuft of scales; thorax whitish-brown, collar slenderly 

 barred with black and more obscurely with purplish -brown 

 above and below ; shoulder-lappets partially edged with the 

 same ; scales at the back drawn together into minute obscure 

 points tipped with dark brown; fascicles white, small; abdomen 

 whitish-brown dusted with dark brown, as also are the lateral 

 tufts ; anal tuft rather long, tinged with fulvous. Fore wings 

 narrow ; costa very nearly straight ; apex bluntly rounded ; 

 hind margin faintly crenulated, but little oblique or rounded 

 except at the anal angle ; dorsal margin straight, colour 

 whitish-brown ; from the middle of the base arises a long, 

 rather curved black streak which lies below the median 

 nervure ; above and beyond it, in the discal cell, and between 

 the nervures onward to the hind margin, are elongated, dark 

 umbreous streaks and clouds forming an ill-defined stripe 

 through the middle of the winsr; near the hind margin 



