2o8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



and Enniskillen. Apparently less common abroad thau witli 

 us, but occurring in some part of Southern, Central, and 

 Western Europe ; also in Asia Minor and in the Barbary 

 States of Northern Africa. 



Genus 11. CLEPSIS. 



Antennas notched and thickly ciliated ; palpi thick, blunt, 

 rather porrected ; thorax smooth, thin ; abdomen with rather 

 long anal tuft ; fore wings without fold, smooth beneath. 



1. C. rusticana, Tr. — Expanse i inch (12-14 mm.). 

 Unicolorous drab or smoky drab ; female more yellowish ; 

 hind wings smoky brown. 



Antenna^ notched, ciliated, brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 yellow-brown ; abdomen olive-brown. Fore wings narrow ; 

 costa scarcely arched, not folded; apex bluntly angulated; 

 hind margin oblique ; pale drab, yellowish-drab, or smokj' 

 drab, with a faint marbling of olive-yellow in obscure lines, 

 without distinct markings ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings 

 pale smoky brown ; cilia rather lighter. Female rather smaller, 

 with the fore wings more narrow and pointed ; uniformly 

 pale yellow or whitish ochreous ; the hind wings white. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky drab, the margins more 

 yellow ; hind wings smoky white. Female very similar. 



Usually not variable, but I have seen a variety, nearly 

 white, from Scotland. 



On tiie wing in iMay and June. 



Lakva apparently never noticed here, except that Mr. J. E. 

 Kobson tells me that Mr. J. Sang found the larva at Eggles- 

 ton, Durham, in Ma\^ 1881, but left no details. V. Hornig 

 records that it is " dirty greenish-yellow, with a pale brown 

 head" feeding in "spun-together leaves oi Lotus, Dori/r- 

 nium, and Gcntiana amarcUa in September," and " inhabit- 

 ing mountain districts." The last statement seems to be 

 in slight contradiction to its habits with us. Schmid says 



