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cipal locality now seems to be the New Forest, Hants; but it 

 is found sparingly in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Dorset, Devon, 

 Somerset, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambs, Northampton- 

 skire, Wilts, Berks, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worces- 

 tershire and even Yorkshire, but I know of no case of its 

 occuri'ence in Wales. There is a single record in Scotland — 

 by the late Dr. F. B. White, in Perthshire ; and a single 

 specimen of one of the chestnut varieties has been taken in 

 Ireland near Cork. Abroad it is found over the greater part 

 of Central Europe, Northern Italy, Pontus, and Japan. 



2. P. umbrana, Huh. — Expanse | inch (18-20 mm.). 

 Costa of fore wings high-shouldered ; on the disk is an 

 oblique complete costal black-brown stripe, having on its 

 surface two or three raised tufts. 



Antennaj pale brown ; paljDi, head, and thorax umbreous ; 

 abdomen reddish-brown. Fore wings broad ; costa strongly 

 and steeply arched at the base ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 glossy brown or red-brown faintly marbled with darker in 

 meandering lines from the costa ; from the middle of the 

 base a black or brown-black thick streak runs through to the 

 apex, this streak throwing off fine lines near the hind margin, 

 and being ornamented with two or three tufts of raised scales 

 at intervals ; two or three smaller raised tufts lie near the 

 dorsal margin ; cilia pale brown. Hind wings broad, white 

 or smoky white, cilia concolorous. Female very similar. 



Underside of fore wings leaden-grej? ; costa spotted with 

 dull white ; hind wings white. 



On the wing from August to October, and after hyberna- 

 tion in March and April. 



Lakva light green, head, dorsal plate and anterior feet 

 black. (Zeller.) 



.June and July upon hornbeam, hawthorn, dogwood, 

 mountain ash, bird-cherry, sallow and alder. 



This moth is scarce and but little known in this country. 



