70 LEPIDOPTEKA. 



— and, except a specimen taken in the New Forest on 

 Feb. 21, 1899, by ^Ir. Herbert Astley, tliis seems to com- 

 plete the record of captures in these Islands. As will be 

 seen, these are : one in London, one in Kent, one in Hants, 

 three near Liverpool, one in Wales, and one in Scotland. 

 Abroad it has a very wide, though distant, range ; being 

 rather scarce in the South of Europe, plentiful in North and 

 South Africa, including Egypt, the Canaries, and ^ladeira ; 

 also in India, Western Asia ; North America to Texas, 

 California, Arizona, and other parts of New Mexico — where 

 it is abundant — Australia, and the Sandwich Isles. 



Cenus 2. PLATYTES. 



Antennae simple or minutely serrated ; ])alpi twice or 

 thrice the length of the head, the maxillary pair triangu- 

 larly scaled, both strongly porrected and roughened ; fore 

 wings oblong, but short, angulated at the tiji ; hind wings 

 moderately ample, the hair-scales on the upper side of the 

 median nervure very fine and delicate. 



We have only one species. 



1. P. cerussellus, >irhiff. — Expanse ij inch (l-j-]7mm). 

 Fore wings shoit, almost squared behind ; dull brown, with 

 two, duplicated and angulated, darker brown transverse 

 lines. Hind wings smoky brown. Female whiter. 



Antennas of the male simple, thick, ciliated, dark brown ; 

 labial palpi very long, bent down a little toward the tips 

 and thickly clothed with brown scales ; maxillary palpi 

 darkt-r, shortly hatchet-shaped ; head and thorax brown ; 

 abdomen very slender, bronzy-brown. Fore wings short, 

 truncate ; costa faintly arched ; apex squarely angulated ; 

 hind margin straight, almost perpendicular ; anal angle 

 squared ; colour bronzy-brown, dusted with reddish-brown ; 

 in the middle of the wing is a strongly elbowed transverse 

 line of reddish-brown dusting, and bevond it another — 



