346 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Perthshire, also abundantly in Moray. I have no certain 

 knowledge of its occurrence in Ireland. Abroad its range is 

 through Central Europe, the temperate portions of Northern 

 Europe, Northern Italy, and Southern and Eastern Eussia. 



5. 0. lunosa, Hcui\ — Expanse \\ to U inch. Fore 

 wings variable, pale drab, tawny, red-brown, blackish-brown, 

 or blackish-grey ; nervures paler ; stigmata darker ; a row 

 of black dots before the hind margin. Hind wings white, 

 with a large dark central spot and dark clouds near the hind 

 margin. 



Antenna; of the male simple but ciliated with pairs of 

 tufts of fine bristles closely resembling small pectinations, 

 pale brown or brownish- white ; palpi broadly tufted with 

 long black hair-scales, apical joint small, whitish-brown; 

 eyes naked, red-black or leaden-black, dotted with deep 

 black ; head moderately tufted and having a faint cross- 

 channel beneath the antenna, pale red or purplish-grey; 

 thorax rather loosely tufted, the shoulder-lappets raised, 

 drab, buff, red-brown or blackish-brown, in accordance with 

 the colour of the fore wings, scales at the back gathered 

 into one or two small prostrate tufts; fascicles white or 

 smoky-white; abdomen purplish-brown or brown-black 

 dusted with brown, but with a shining whitish or pale 

 yellow bar across the hinder edge of each segment ; lateral 

 tufts spreading ; anal tuft pale drab or pale reddish-orange. 

 Fore wings rather narrow at the base; costa straight but 

 suddenly arched close to the apex, which is very bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin beneath it straight but bent below 

 the middle, curved-in, crenulated, and almost excavated close 

 to the anal angle ; dorsal margin straight to near the base, 

 where it is curved and strongly tufted with hair-scales ; 

 colour extremely variable, pale drab, olive-drab, reddish-drab, 

 tawny-red, deep purplish-brown, or blackish-grey ; in the 

 darker forms with all the nervin-es white or brownish-white, 

 in the red and drab varieties often less distinctly so ; basal 



