224 LEPIDOPTERA. 



It has been beaten out of blackthoru and has been captured 

 at ivy-bloom in autumn, and at sallow-bloom in the spring. It 

 appears to have been formerly more frequent and to have 

 been found in some numbers in the New Forest and Whittle- 

 bury Forest, from which places recent records are rare. It 

 has occurred, generally rarely, in Surrey, Susses, Hants, 

 Dorset, Essex, Northamptonshire. Herefordshire, and there 

 exist records, unconfirmed, for North Lancashire and West- 

 moreland. This is, I think, the full extent of its range in 

 these Islands. Abroad it is found through Central Euroj^e, 

 Sweden and Finland. 



3. P. hastiana, L. — Expanse '\ to f inch (18-22 mm.). 

 Fore wings elongated, gracefully shaped ; costa steeply 

 arched at the base, not hollowed, the arch roughly scaled at 

 the edge ; central raised button minute. 



Autennse of the male reddish-brown, simple ; palpi por- 

 rected, dark brown, paler above ; head and thorax brown ; 

 abdomen j-ellow-brown. Fore wings moderately broad ; costa 

 very highly arched from the base and there rough with costal 

 raised scales ; not hollowed in the middle, bluntly angulated at 

 the apex, and the hind margin full ; excessively variable in 

 colour and in markings, but without any large button of 

 raised scales ; though a very small one or even two are some- 

 times visible in the middle area, and others still more minute 

 are scattered round ; colour umbreous or some other shade of 

 brown, purple-brown, slate-brown, red-brown, drab or pale 

 drab, often with an oblique baud of pale grey, white, or some 

 other light colour near the base ; or a broad, longitudiual, 

 costal stripe, or dorsal stripe, or stripe through the middle of 

 the wing, of white, yellow, orange, or yellow-brown ; or other- 

 wise with longitudinal brown lines on a paler brown ground, 

 or almost any other combination or arrangement of the same 

 colours or patterns. Hind wings shining amoky white- 

 Female similar in all variations. 



Underside of the fore wings shining lead-colour ; costa 



