244 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Solway, and Clyde. Also usually uncommon in Ireland, 

 though recorded as plentiful in Kerry and Galway, and 

 less so in Louth and Tyrone ; otherwise widely distributed 

 but scarce. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe and the 

 greater part of Southern Europe, but seems not to have a 

 northern distribution. 



Genus 60. NJENIA. 



Antenna simjjle, naked ; palpi furnished with tufts of 

 long scales ; eyes naked, with prostrate back lashes ; thorax 

 broad, strongly crested at the top and back ; abdomen stout, 

 not crested ; fore wings short, broad, very truncate ; hind 

 wings broad, with v. 5 well marked ; hind margins of all the 

 wings very faintly scalloped. 



We have but one species. 



1. N. typica, L. — Expanse H to If inch. Thorax 

 provided with a tall forked top ci'est and a well-developed 

 back crest ; fore wings broad, squared, and truncate, glossy 

 black-brown or grey-brown, -with the nervures, transverse 

 lines, and edges of the stigmata white, giving a latticed 

 appearance ; hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, cylindrical, hardly perceptibly 

 ciliated, brown ; palpi moderately long, so prominently tufted 

 as to seem forked, black-brown ; eyes shining lead-colour, 

 naked ; back lashes black ; head pale purplish-brown dusted 

 with black ; collar purplish-drab ; remainder of thorax pale 

 smoky-brown dotted and dusted with black and white, 

 especially along the edges of the shoulder-lappets and the 

 tufts, the top crest very tall and broadly forked, back crest 

 elongated and divided into tufts, which are tipped with 

 white ; fascicles smoke-colour ; abdomen blackish-brown with 

 a golden gloss, lateral and anal tufts rather darker. Fore 

 wings broad, expanded behind, truncate ; costa faintly 



