268 LEPIDOPTERA. 



which are females, were captured in 1897 fluttering among 

 grass at about 5 p.m., in a meadow a few miles from Carlisle. 

 These records when collected show rather a wide range in 

 England — Hants, Cambs, Norfolk, Yorkshire and Cumber- 

 land. I know of no other localities within the British Isles, 

 Abroad it is found in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, 

 Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Southern Russia, and the Ural 

 Mountain district. 



2. H. arcuosa, Haw. — Male 1 to 1^ inch, female f to f 

 inch. Thorax and abdomen slender ; fore wings creamy- white 

 or pale yellow-brown with a curved transverse line of dots 

 beyond the middle ; hind wings smoky-brown, whiter at the 

 base. 



Antennre of the male short, simple, cylindrical, minutely 

 ciliated, pale brown ; palpi set widely apart, very slenderly 

 tufted, light brown ; head rather smooth, whitish-brown ; 

 thorax slender, thinly covered with scales, brownish-drab ; 

 fascicles smoky- white ; abdomen pale purplish-drab, lateral 

 tufts obscure, anal tufts narrow, pale yellow. Fore wings 

 short and broad, very blunt behind ; costa gently arched ; 

 apex squarely angulated ; hind margin very slightly oblique 

 and still less curved till near the anal angle, where it is 

 rounded off ; dorsal margin very faintly rounded ; colour 

 pale yellowish-drab or brownish-white; first line indicated by 

 three or four minute dark brown dots placed on the costa aud 

 nervures ; second line by a curved series of similar dots upon 

 nervures, sometimes faintly united by brownish curves ; sub- 

 terminal line suggested by the edge of a partial undulating 

 brown cloud near the lower portion of the hind margin ; 

 costal region often faintly clouded with brown ; a brown dot 

 on the place of subdivision of the median nervure, some- 

 times supplemented by another upon the subcostal, seems to 

 indicate the reniform stigma ; before the apex of the wings 

 is usually an ill-defined cloudy brown costal spot, rather of a 

 triangular shape and sharply cut off behind ; in it are some- 



