2o6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



emphatically the case in South Devon and apparently in 

 Kent ; in Sussex and Dorset it seems usually to be rare. 

 Thirty years ago it might be found at Wandswoi'th — now 

 a portion of London — and it still exists very locally in woods 

 in Surrey, Middlesex, Bucks, Berks, Wilts, Oxfordshire, 

 Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire. Worcestershire, 

 Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire ; also in the Mid- 

 lands, in Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire ; more 

 plentifully in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire ; much 

 less so in Durham, Northumberland, and Cumberland. In 

 Scotland the only district in which I know it to occur is 

 that of Eannoch, Perthshire ; and I find no record in 

 Wales. In Ireland it is recorded in Wicklow and Kerrj^ ; 

 Colonel Partridge found it at Loch Erne near Enniskillen, 

 and a single specimen is reported from Londonderry. Abroad 

 its range is not very extensive, apparently only comprising 

 Central Europe, Livonia, and the Ural Mountain district. 



6. T. opima, Hi\h. — Expanse 1^ to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings very pointed, with oblique hind margin, hoary-brown 

 or purple-brown, with a broad darker central band obscuring 

 the stigmata ; beyond it is a straight oblique pale brown stripe 

 edged with white or pale yellow. Hind wings smoky-white. 



Antenna; of the male pectinated with short ciliated teeth, 

 purple-brown ; palpi almost concealed by long shaggy purple- 

 brown hair-scales, apical joint just visible; head depressed, 

 purplish-brown ; thorax densely covered with long similar 

 scales ; fascicles dirty white ; abdomen dull pale reddish- 

 brown ; lateral and anal tufts spreading. Fore wings rather 

 pointed ; costa almost straight ; apex produced but rather 

 obtusely angulated ; hind margin obliqne, fully curved ; 

 dorsal margin faintly rounded ; colour purple-brown or 

 purple-grey much dusted with ashy-grey, so as very often 

 to present a hoary appearance ; first line much curved and 

 broken, merely forming the edge of a darker purple-brown 

 or reddish-brown central band, all the space between it and 



