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Mr. S. J. ("apppi- found specimens among ths captures of 

 Mr. 0. Gulliver in the New Forest, and here it was soon 

 found to be by no means rare, occurring also in the fir woods 

 of Surrey. As to whether it had recently migrated to this 

 country, or had lingered on almost unnoticed for half a 

 century, there is unfortunately no evidence ; but it is now to 

 be found, besides Hants and Surrey, in Dorset, Berks, and 

 Oxfordshire, but so far as is known, not elsewhere in these 

 Islands. Abroad it is a very abundant species, sometimes 

 most destructive in the pine forests, and is found throughout 

 Central Europe, Northern Italy, Sardinia, Scandinavia, and 

 Northern Asia. 



1'. T. podana, Scop. Hcin. ; pyrastrana, Hh. Gn. ; ful- 



vana, WUk. Si. .1/.— Espanse of male f , of female 1 inch 

 (18-25 mm.). Fore wings dull red-brown, darker in the 

 middle; the wing apex strongly produced; hind wings 

 smoky grey-brown ; the apical half in the female suffused 

 with orange-red. 



Antennaj of the male threadlike, brown; palpi, head and 

 thorax reddish-brown ; abdomen paler. Eore wings broad, 

 truncate, with the apex strongly produced ; costa much 

 arched to the middle, beyond it faintly hollowed ; colour 

 red-brown or light chestnut; the costal fold broad, beneath 

 it from the middle of the base is a discoloured pale brown 

 patch edged below by an elongated chocolate-red spot ; 

 central band velvety chocolate, very broad upon the costa, 

 curving obliquely to the anal angle; a similar, divided, 

 velvety cloud lies along the hind margin. Hind wincrs 

 rather short, rounded behind, dull smoky grey-bi-own, often 

 tmged with orange-brown toward the apex ; cilia all con- 

 colorous. Female stouter and much larger, without fold, more 

 evenly pale brown in colour, without velvety gloss, but the 

 edges of the stripes more clearly marked as slender hair-like 

 lines, which enclose darker clouds toward the costal and dorsal 

 margins. Hind wings smoky brown, shaded from the middle 



