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and other flowers, and has even been taken at early ivy- 

 bloom. 



Found in all parts of England, and usually commonly, 

 yet, strange to say, I find no record of it in Wales except 

 that I once saw a larva at Pembroke. Common also 

 everywhere in Ireland, found throughout the south of 

 Scotland to Perthshire, and on the east side of that country 

 to Aberdeenshire and Moray. Abroad it has an immense 

 range — all Central Europe, the temperate portions of 

 Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Corsica, Central Spain, 

 Northern and Eastern Turkey, Southern Eussia, Asia Minor, 

 Persia, the mountainous regions of Central Asia, Canada, and 

 the United States of America. 



Genus 62. TOXOCAMPA.' 



Antennee threadlike but rather bristly ; palpi porrected ; 

 thorax smooth, somewhat narrow ; abdomen without crests, 

 rather flattened and comparatively slender ; fore wings very 

 broad, pointed, and somewhat trigonate ; hind wings ample 

 and decidedly long, v. 5 slender, arising above the middle of 

 the crossbar, which is oblic[ue ; between the nervures are 

 strong and well marked ridges. 



Larv^ smooth, somewhat attenuated in front, the first 

 two pairs of prolegs rather short. On herbaceous plants. 



PuP^ in a cocoon on or in the ground. 



We have two species — readily distinguished : 



A. Forewings with three or four chocolate costal spots. 



T. craccce. 

 A^. Forewings with the costa unspotted. T, pastinum. 



1. T. pastinum, Tr. — Expanse If to If inch. Thorax 

 and abdomen slender, collar black-brown ; fore wings very 

 broad, refuse behind, pale browm dusted with ashy-grey, 



