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sugar, ivy-bloom, ragwort, or other flowers, and at light. 

 Late at night it seems to fly high and to rather frequent 

 highly placed buildings and chimneys, and it constantly falls 

 into tanks of water when open, if placed on a building. It 

 is indeed ubiquitous ; I have found it sitting on the stone- 

 work of Waterloo Bridge in the middle of London ; it 

 abounds all over England, Wales, and Ireland, and over the 

 greater part of Scotland, being sometimes found in multi- 

 tudes in hayiields in the last-named country. Abroad its 

 range is very wide — all Europe except the coldest northern 

 portions, Asia Minor, Eastern Siberia, the mountainous 

 regions of Central Asia, India, Ceylon, INfadeira, North and 

 South Africa, Canada, Nova Scotia ; New England, and 

 other parts of the United States. 



Genus 68. GRAMMESIA. 



Antennee pectinated ; eyes naked, with small lashes at the 

 back ; thorax thick, tufted at the back ; abdomen stout, not 

 crested ; fore wings of even breadth, very blunt behind, 

 usual pattern of markings absent ; hind wings not large, 

 vein 5 very faint, arising from the middle of the cross- 

 bar. 



We have but one species. 



1. G. trilinea, BJ^h.; trigrammica, Btaud, Cat. — Ex- 

 panse l^- to 1 J inch. Fore wings pale drab or reddish-drab, 

 with three distinct, dark brown, equidistant transverse lines ; 

 hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antennge of the male pectinated with very short, solid, 

 ciliated teeth, red-brown ; palpi rather short, loosely scaled, 

 blackish-brown, apical joint also tufted, paler; eyes promi- 

 nent, naked, deep black ; head smooth, pale drab, a whitish 

 tuft of scales at the base of each antenna ; thorax thick, 

 pale drab, slightly dusted with brown, smooth except that 

 the scales at the back are sometimes gathered into two short 



