252 LEPIDOPTERA. 



year, hardly a specimen seen in another. By no means in all 

 woods, but local, and usually abundant where it occurs. 

 Plentiful in the New Forest, Hants; Epping Forest, Essex; 

 and in various woods in Surrey, Sussex, ^Middlesex, Berks, 

 Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, also in the woods skirting Dart- 

 moor and elsewhere in Devon ; found only in the east of 

 Goi'nwall, and rarely in Dorset ; very locally in Bucks, 

 Oambs, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Lincoln- 

 shire ; more rarely in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Derby- 

 shire, Leicestershire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, less so in 

 Herefordshire and Worcestershire ; the only record that 

 I find north of Yorkshire is of a single specimen at 

 Morpeth, Northumberland. So far as I know, it has not 

 been found in Wales or Scotland. In Ireland it is rather 

 widely distributed — abundant in Kerry, Waterford, and 

 Galway, and very fine in Cork ; taken more rarely near 

 Dublin, Westmeath, Athlone, and Sligo, which seems to 

 be there its northern limit. Abroad it has a most extensive 

 range — the whole of Continental Europe except the extreme 

 north ; Asia Minor, Armenia, Tartary, India, China, Japan, 

 varying larger and sometimes with the middle portion of 

 the fore wings very deeply coloured ; evidently this species, 

 though known under the names of monolitlia, surnia, magna, 

 and ohscura. Moreover, the species known in North America 

 as pj/ramidoidcs is probably not distinct ; it appears to be 

 nothing more than a local variety with the second line a 

 little more curved. 



2. A. tragopogonis, L. — Expanse li- to If inch. Fore 

 wings silky grey-brown, with an obscure black dot in the 

 place of the orbicular stigma and two more in that of the 

 reniform. Hind wings j^ale smoky-brown with a yellow or 

 red gloss. 



Antennge simple, naked, brown ; palpi ascending, narrowly 

 tufted, dull brown ; eyes large and prominent, naked, deep 

 black ; head tufted, pale purplish-brown ; thorax broad, 



