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Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire. Probably throughout 

 South Wales since I have found it in Pembrokeshire. In 

 Scotland it seems to be more particularly confined to the 

 Eastern districts, extending to Perthshire and Moray, but 

 not commonly. Also usually rather scarce in Ireland and 

 mainly confined to littoral counties — recorded from Dublin, 

 Waterford, Gahvay, Sligo, Fermanagh, Louth, and Derry. 

 Abroad it has a wide range through all Northern Europe 

 except the coldest portions, Central Europe, Northern Italy, 

 Southern Russia, Eastern Siberia, Asia Minor, and the 

 mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



4. C. blanda, Tr. ; taraxaci, Staud. Cat. — Expanse 

 1\ to 1| inch. Fore wings rather narrow, very blunt, sur- 

 face extremely smooth and silky; yellowish-umbreous clouded 

 with darker ; upper stigmata umbreous, with slender whitish 

 margins ; transverse bands faint. Hind wings brownish- 

 white. 



Antennas of the male stout, simple, minutely ciliated, 

 brown; palpi rather slender, dark brown, the apical joint 

 visibly paler ; eyes naked, dull black ; head rounded in front, 

 but with a cross furrow below the antennte, pale chocolate ; 

 thorax smooth, brown with a chocolate tinge, the scales at 

 the back drawn together into minute points ; fascicles small, 

 brownish-white ; abdomen very pale purplish-brown ; lateral 

 and anal tufts rather brighter brown. Fore wings narrow, 

 blunt ; costa very faintly curved ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin full and very gently curved ; dorsal margin 

 nearly straight ; colour yellowish-umbreous, very smooth and 

 silky ; basal line indicated by a small curved black streak ; 

 first line nearly perpendicular, rather toothed, black but 

 hardly noticeable except upon the nervures ; second line 

 a rather curved but not very oblique series of obscure black 

 dots on nervures ; subterminal line pale yellowish-brown, 

 merely the irregular margin of a dark brown transverse 

 cloudy stripe ; orbicular and reniform stigmata large, rather 



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