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any sallows which h,appen to be in bloom close by, but does 

 not travel far. When fully out, at the beginning of May, it 

 will also come at times to sugar. Abundant in large fir- 

 woods, such as those of the New Forest, Hants, and not 

 disdaining the few Scotch fir-trees which often are scattered 

 in other woods; apparently to be found in such suitable 

 localities over the whole of England and, perhaps, Wales, 

 though I find records only from Dolgelly in North Wales 

 and from Swansea in the south, and did not find the species 

 in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland it is very widely distributed, 

 being sometimes quite plentiful in Morayshire, and ex- 

 tending throughout the country to Arran, Perthshire, 

 Aberdeenshire, and West Ross. In Ireland it had not 

 been observed at the date of the publication of Mr. Birchall's 

 List (1867), and Mr. W. F. de V. Kane, in his " Catalogue of 

 the Lepidoptera of Ireland " — still in course of publication — 

 suggests that it was in all probability exterminated in that 

 country by the destruction of the pine forests, which seems 

 to have taken place since the twelfth century ; and that it 

 may have recently been reintroduced with fir-plants from 

 English nurseries, since it is certainly now an inhabitant 

 of Ireland and appears to be extending its range. It has 

 already been observed in the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, 

 Meath, Cork, Galway, Siigo, Tyrone and Londonderry. 

 Abroad its range is wide : through Central Europe, the 

 temperate portions of Northern Europe, North Italy, and 

 Southern and Western Russia. Though provided with no 

 near allies here, it has some very pretty exotic relatives. 



Genus 56. TiENIOCAMPA. 



Antenna3 of the males toothed like a saw or pectinated, 

 of the females simple ; eyes hairy, with rather long black 

 lashes ; thorax stout, smooth, but very thickly and softly 

 covered with scales ; abdomen rather small and sliort, not 

 crested ; fore wings rather thick, bluntly pointed, much 



