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upon their trunks ; doubtless it is equally attracted by 

 honeydew upon the leaves, and it may occasionally be 

 secured at a strong light. Forty years ago it might be 

 found in the outskirts of London, as at Dulwich, and also 

 at Wimbledon, but although the lime is probably the most 

 plentiful tree in South London, the moth appears quite to 

 have forsaken the district. To all appearance its favourite 

 resorts are the wooded sides of chalk hills, and where the 

 lime grows freely in such situations it is common, but in 

 very many localities it is but casually found. Still common 

 in such suitable places in Surrey, Berks, Oxfordshire, and 

 Essex, and found in Middlesex, Sussex, Dorset, Devon, 

 Somerset, Gloucestershire, Cambridgeshire, Herefordshire, 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire; occasionally in Wai'- 

 wickshire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire ; locally but more 

 commonly in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire ; much 

 more rarely in Durham and Cumberland. I find no record 

 in Wales nor in vScotland, with the very remarkable exception 

 of the capture by Mr. McArthur of a single specimen in one 

 of the Hebrides ; and in Ireland it is recorded only from 

 Wicklow and Galway. Abroad it ranges through Central 

 Euroj)e, the temperate portions of Northern Europe, Eastern 

 Spain, Northern Italy, and Southern and Eastern Eussia. 



2. A. cerago, Sdciff; fulvago, Stand. Cat. — Expanse 

 1^ to If inch. Fore wings rather pointed and retuse, bright 

 pale yellow marbled and partially banded with reddish-purple ; 

 collar ydlotu ; hind wings white. 



Antennas of the male rather stout, simple, delicately ciliated, 

 fulvous ; palpi small and slender, pale purple ; eyes naked, 

 brown ; head tufted, clear pale yellow ; collar similar, as 

 is the remainder of the thorax, except a purplish-red patch 

 on the base of each shoulder-lappet, and another at the back 

 where the scales are gathered to an obscure point ; fascicles 

 clear white ; abdomen pale purplish-brown abundantly covered 

 at the base and sides with silky-white hair-scales; lateral 



