206 LEPIDOPTEKA. 



in South Wales ; also found in all the Lowland districts of 

 Scotland even to the Orkneys, but apparently not on the 

 mountains and moors. In Ireland recorded from the Dublin 

 district, Waterford, Cork, Sligo, Armagh and i?elfast. Abroad 

 it is common throughout Central Europe, Piedmont, Finland, 

 Livonia, Sweden, and Norway, and also found in Pontus. 



Genus lU. BATODES. 



Antennas notched and thickly ciliated ; palpi very short 

 and blunt, but slender ; thorax strongly tufted at the back ; 

 fore wings folded, the fold very broad and rounded oif ; hind 

 wings ribbed beneath. Female without costal fold, and 

 very diiferent. 



1. B. angustiorana, Haw. — Expanse \ to J inch 

 (12-15 mm.). Male velvety dark brown, with a broad dorsal 

 yellow hemispherical spot ; female rich chestnut-red with a 

 white costal spot. 



Antennte of the male dark brown ; palpi and head black- 

 brown ; thorax deep golden brown ; abdomen black-brown. 

 Fore wings moderately broad ; costa regularly arched and 

 furnished from the base with a short broad fold, which is 

 readily raised and often projects a little ; apex bluntly angu- 

 lated ; rich dark red-brown mixed with black ; on the dorsal 

 margin, near the base, is a large hemispherical dull yellow 

 spot, and nearl}' opposite to it, on the costa, a smalleroblique 

 angulated similar spot, which forms the commencement of a 

 faint and broken pale central band, very oblique ; beyond 

 this a drab stripe lies across the apex ; cilia chestnut-brown. 

 Hind wings smoky black, with pale cilia. Female quite 

 different, larger and more beautiful, and having some resem- 

 blance to Tortric xi/lostmna ; fore wings lai'ger, rich chestnut 

 or tawny-brown with velvety shades ; the large dorsal spot 

 faint, but the central band more distinct and whiter upon 

 the costa. Hind wings and cilia dark smoky brown. 



Underside of the fore wings black-brown, with a j'el- 



