TORTRICIDM—AMPHYSA . air 



the mosses of the north ; and I think that its most southern 

 reliable locality is on the Black Mountain, Herefordshire ; 

 but it is common in Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and 

 Cumberland, and abundant in Northumberland and Durham. 

 A record in Kent by the late Mr. Walter Weston, and of two 

 specimens at Paul, Cornwall, by Mr. W. E. Bailey cannot 

 well be ignored, but they are hard to understand. In Wales 

 it is found on the mountains to Pembrokeshire ; and in 

 Scotland at above 600 feet ; also in Ireland on the Wicklow 

 mountains, near Sligo and in Armagh. Abroad it is common 

 on the mountains of Central and Southern Europe, also in 

 Sweden, Asia Minor, and Tartary. 



2. A. prodromana, Hiih.; walkerana, Cvrt. — Ex- 

 panse h to I inch (12-15 mm.). Dark grey or white with 

 two very oblique black-brown transverse stripes joined over 

 the anal angle. 



AntennEe of the male pectinated, dark brown ; palpi, head, 

 and thorax of the same colour ; abdomen black-brown, white 

 behind. Fore wings rather narrow; costa not folded but 

 somewhat flattened ; apex bluntly angulated ; pale greyish 

 umbreous or reddish-umbreous, dusted with white ; basal 

 area black-brown without markings ; central baud oblique 

 and well defined, narrow on the costa, broad on the dorsal 

 margin and anal angle, where it joins a more narrow hind 

 marginal band ; apical region dotted and clouded with red- 

 dish-brown ; cilia similarly clouded. Hind wings dark 

 smoky brown ; cilia hardlj- paler. Female — antenna3 simple, 

 body thicker ; fore wings rather narrow and more pointed, 

 white, with a basal spot, and the two joined oblique trans- 

 verse bands, rich brown. Hind wings smoky white. 



Underside of the fore wings dark grey or lead colour ; 

 costa clouded with yellow-white. Hind wings white with a 

 large smoky black shade. 



On the wing from the middle of March to the beginning 

 of May. 



