TRIFID.-E. i8i 



Forest and other oak woods iu Essex ; Kichmond Park and 

 Coombe Wood, Surrey ; near Lewes, Sussex ; more rarely in 

 Dorset, South Devon, and Cornwall; more commonly in 

 Savernake Forest, Wilts, and locally in Berks ; also in Black 

 Park, Bucks, and in Herefordshire. Once recorded in 

 Norfolk, and said to have been taken in Dunham Park, 

 Cheshire. In Wales it has been taken by Captain Eobertson 

 near Swansea. I know of no other localities in the United 

 Kingdom. 



Abroad it inhabits Central Europe, Livonia, Corsica, and 

 Northern Italy, but probably is much more widely dis- 

 tributed, since it is found in Japan (under the name of 

 Ch^andis), varying from the normal form as with us to 

 larger and darker varieties, some of them having the cilia 

 darker, others paler. Such as these are in the Exotic 

 collection of Mr. W. J. Kaye. 



Genus 55. PANOLIS, 



Antennae of the male notched and tufted, of the female 

 simple ; eyes hairy, provided with lashes at the back ; 

 thorax thick and round, crested at the back ; abdomen short, 

 hairy, not crested ; fore wings of thick texture, narrow, with 

 large stigmata and rich colouring, much deflected when at 

 rest. Hind wings small ; crossbar angulated ; vein 5 distinct, 

 arising at the angle. 



We have only one species. 



1. P. piniperda, Panzer. — Expanse \\ to H inch. 

 Fore wings rich glossy orange-red or deep fulvous, shaded 

 with silvery and purplish clouds; upper stigmata large, 

 white, the reniform elongated and curved outwards; hind 

 wings smoky black-brown. Female sometimes suffused with 

 greenish-grey or purple-grey. 



Antennae of the male notched like a saw, finely ciliated and 

 tufted upon each notch, purple-brown ; palpi extremely short 



