no LEl'IDOPTERA. 



shire ; also in Yorkshire, but apparently not noticed in the 

 other northern English counties. In Wales it has been 

 taken in Carnarvonshire and Denbighshire, and I found it 

 commonly in Pembrokeshire ; in Scotland it is common in 

 Perthshire, and has been taken in Kirkcudbright, and by 

 Mr. Cheesman in Orkney ; in Ireland the only record 

 appears to be from the County of Cork. Abroad its range 

 extends over the greater part of Europe, including the 

 Island of Corsica ; also Western Asia. 



21. C. contaminellus, Htlh. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore 

 wings narrow, rather retuse, dull brown-drab, with a very 

 obscure oblique darker brown line in the middle, and a 

 more perpendicular one toward the hind margin. Hind 

 wings dull smoky white. 



Antennas of the male simple, thickly ciliated, light brown ; 

 labial palpi slender, the maxillary short spreading tufts, 

 pale brown ; head and thorax brownish-drab ; abdomen 

 silky grey-brown. Fore wings blunt, very even in width ; 

 costa arched at the base, thence almost straight ; apex 

 angulated, but the hind margin retuse and scarcely curved, 

 except at the anal angle ; colour dull drab, shaded toward 

 the costal and dorsal margins with a dusting of dull 

 umbreous ; usual longitudinal stripe only occasionally 

 visible from this darker marginal clouding ; in the middle 

 of the wing is a just perceptible, cloudy, umbreous, oblique 

 transverse line, and nearer the hind margin another, less 

 oblique, but repeatedly indented ; cilia dull brownish-drab. 

 Hind wings i-ather broad, rounded behind ; silky smoky 

 white ; cilia rather whiter. Female similar, or darker in 

 colour. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoky drab, paler 

 toward the apex. Hind wings shining smoky white. Body 

 and legs drab-brown. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Larva and pupa apparently unknown, except that Mr. A. 



