35^ LEPIDOPTERA. 



blackberries, and any other available sweet, including rotten 

 apples. It principally frequents woods, yet is scattered all 

 .over districts in any degree wooded, and is abundant through- 

 out the Southern, Eastern, and Western Counties of England, 

 but local in the Midlands ; again common in Cheshire, Lanca- 

 shire, Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire, but much less so in 

 Durham, Northumberland, and Cumberland. Apparently 

 plentiful throughout Wales, and furnishing the red varieties. 

 Found in all the southern provinces of Scotland to. Perthshire 

 and also in the Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire woods. 

 In Ireland more widely distributed, and found near Dublin, 

 in Wicklow, Waterford, Kerry, Gal way, Sligo, King's County, 

 Westmeath, Cavan, Monaghan, and Tyrone, though always 

 rather locally, and rarely in Londonderry. Here the more 

 red varieties again predominate. Abroad it has a wide range 

 —through Central Europe, Sweden, South Finland, Southern 

 France, Northern Italy, Spain, Asia Minor, Armenia, and 

 the mountain regions of Central Asia. 



7. O. macilenta, /?"»&.— Expanse \\ to If inch. Fore 

 wino-s smooth, soft ochreous-brown or orange-brown, with a 

 central black dot and a combined straight red and yellow 

 stripe before the hind margin. Hind wings smoky-black 

 with yellowish-red margin. 



Antennas of the male simple, but ciliated with minute 

 tufts of fine bristles, yellow-brown; palpi small and short, 

 pale purple-brown; head and thorax smooth, light fulvous, 

 the latter with a most obscure tuft at the back ; fascicles 

 yellowish-white ; abdomen pale yellow-brown, with the anal 

 tuft bright fulvous; lateral tufts spreading, similar. Fore 

 wings rather pointed ; costa very nearly straight to near the 

 apex, where it is faintly curved; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin oblique, straight, but below the middle rounded 

 off; dorsal margin gracefully curved; colour smooth soft 

 ochreous-brown or orange-brown ; basal line suggested by a 

 black spot near the base of the median nervure and a smaller 



