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will be maintained, experience only can show — so far it 

 does not seem able to exist very far from the extreme South 

 Coast, and has not been met with in any other part of the 

 United Kingdom. In the Channel Isles it appears to be 

 more at home, and is found in two generations, and this 

 also is the case in its more southern range through Ger- 

 many, Hungary, the South of Spain, and the greater portion 

 of Southern Europe. 



(C. superstes, Tr. — By some confusion of names this 

 inhabitant of Southern Europe has been recorded as British. 

 The supposed specimens appear to have been referable either 

 to the last-named or other well-known species.) 



3. C. alsines, ^M. — Expanse 1} to If inch. Fore wings 

 coarsely scaled, yellowish-brown dusted with umbreous ; upper 

 stigmata obscurely darker ; a curved brown central shade 

 from the reniform to the dorsal margin, and a similar narrow 

 band before the hind margin ; hind wings smoky-white. 



Antennas of the male thick, simple, cylindrical, faintly 

 ciliated, brown ; palpi small, blunt, with very small apical 

 joints, purplish-brown ; eyes large, naked, black-brown, 

 head rather fully tufted, light-brown ; thorax fully but 

 loosely scaled, and the shoulder lappets raised, light-brown, 

 the scales at the back drawn into a small, squared, and faintly 

 divided tuft ; fascicles pale brown ; abdomen brownish-drab 

 lateral and anal tufts brown, the latter large and spreading. 

 Fore wings coarsely scaled, not broad, very blunt behind ; 

 costa faintly curved ; apex very bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin filled-out and almost perpendicular, yet very faintly 

 curved, and much more so at the anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 nearly straight ; colour yellowish-brown ; dusted and a little 

 clouded with umbreous ; basal line merely suggested by 

 a short curved dull brown streak ; first line very indistinct, 

 oblique and bent, dull brown ; second line indicated by a 

 series of black dots, not very oblique and but little curved, 

 often connected by a preceding faint cloudy line ; subterminal 



