15^ LEPIDUPTKh'A. 



to be observed, unless closely searclied for in suit able [jlaces, 

 yet inhabits all tlie Sonthern Counties of England, from 

 Kent to the Scilly Isles, the Eastern Counties to Norfolk, 

 the Western to Lancashire, and the Midland to Derbyshire 

 and Yorkshire; but I find only one recoid in Wales, in 

 Flintshire. In Scotland it seems to be very scarce, but has 

 been noticed by Mr. Adam Elliot in Roxburghshire ; also 

 by Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, near Moncrit-ffe Hill, Perthshire. 

 In Ireland Mr. Kane finds it to be so generally common that 

 he refrains from furnishing localities. Abroad it is common 

 throughout Central and Sonthern Europe, Sweden, Western 

 Russia, Persia, India, and some parts of North America. 



Group G. TOliTPJCINA. 



A somewhat extensive group, amounting in these Islands 

 to nearly three hundred and fifty species, and widely distri- 

 buted over the temperate portions of both the old and new 

 worlds ; also consisting of species so closely allied that the task 

 of dividing it into niaaageable families and genera is by no 

 means easy. Not apparently very closely allied to anj^ other 

 group, but in some respects forming a sort of parallel to the 

 Noctuina. 



Antenna in the majority of species simple and threadlike, 

 but in a few genera notched, and in a very few species shortly 

 pectinated, but not thickened, knotted, dilated, nor tufted. 

 Eyes naked, prominent, without lashes ; palpi nearly always 

 short, straight, pointed, and slightly porrected ; tongue hardly 

 longer than the palpi ; thorax rather rounded, short and 

 stout, often crested at the back. Eorewings of moderate 

 breadth, usually truncate or obtuse behind, but in a f\w 

 species having the apex produced, pointed or hooked. Hind 

 wings rather short but broad, silkj^, and without mai-kings. 

 Abdomen short and blunt, but tufted in the male ; legs short 

 and strong, with short claws. 



A remarkabU' and curious cliaractt-r. hardly known to 



