10 LEI'inOPTERA. 



collector. Almost confined to woods and districts in which 

 oak is plentiful and luxuriant ; very common in those of 

 Kent, Surrey, and the New Forest, Hants ; in abundance on 

 the borders of Oxfordshire ; also fairly common in Sussex, 

 Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Wilts, Berks, Hertfordshire, the 

 Eastern Counties, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Wor- 

 cestershire, and rare in Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, 

 and Durham. In Wales it has been taken in Flintshire and 

 Pembrokeshire ; but I find no record for Scotland or Ireland. 

 Abroad it is common in Central Europe, Southern France, 

 Northern Spain, and Livonia. 



3. A. verrucella, Huh. — Expanse over | inch (20 mm.). 

 Fore wings narrow, purple-grey ; basal space whitish-buff 

 with a basal red dot ; outside the black first line are two 

 small tufts of red raised scales. Hind wings, smoky golden- 

 brown. 



Antenna; of the male simple, the basal joint having a 

 small pointed tuft, the second curved and thickened, red- 

 brown ; palpi slender, ascending, of the same colour, but in- 

 wardly paler; head reddish-white; collar purple-red with a 

 dull white edging ; thorax and abdomen purple-brown, the 

 latter glistening and having a paler edging to each segment. 

 Fore wings elongate, not wide, and hardly broader behind ; 

 costa nearly straight; apex bluntly angulated; hind margin 

 gently I'ounded ; colour pale purple-grey, dusted with brown 

 and black ; at the extreme base is a rich red dot above the 

 median nervure ; remainder of the basal space very pale buff, 

 shading into white at the first line ; this is thick, black, 

 nearly erect and straight ; immediately outside it is a faint 

 rufous cloud in which are two obscure tufts of red upraised 

 scales ; the black scales of the first line itself also are rather 

 uptilted and rough ; outside this is a large purplish-brown 

 cloud, followed by the two discal black dots, roughly formed ; 

 second line oblique and obscure, bent inward at a short 

 distance from both costal and dorsal margins, but the inter- 



