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Tho moth flies iti the afternoon over sweet-gale, whortle- 

 berry, dwarf sallow, and heather, in abundance, in cloudy 

 weather as well as during sunshine, if the temperature is 

 high ; and is especially attached to mountain mosses and 

 boggy moors, sometimes on the steep slopes of the hills and 

 ascending to 1500 feet above the sea at least. Mr. E. Bankes 

 records it as occurring in Dorsetshire, and Mr. W. Weston 

 as rare in Kent. I have no personal knowledge of it in the 

 south ; but it is common on the Black Mountain in Here- 

 fordshire, and most abundant at Tan-y-bwlch. North Wales ; 

 also in Cheshire, Somersetshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Cumber- 

 land, and Northumberland. In Scotland it seems to abound 

 on all suitable hills, moors, and mosses to Orkney. In Ireland 

 it is reported from Antrim, Derry, and Connemara. I find 

 no record of its occurrence outside the British Isles. 



16. P. comariana, Zdl.; proteana, H.-,s.; poten- 

 tillana, Cooke. — Expanse i to f inch. (12-18 mm.). Fore 

 wings narrow, silky, grey-drab or grey-brown, with a con- 

 spicuous black-brown costal triangular spot. 



Antennse simple, red-brown or dark brown ; palpi, head, 

 and thorax red-brown or umbreous; abdomen dull brown. 

 Fore wings narrow, somewhat approaching to ovate ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; colour grey-drab, grey-brown, reddish- 

 grey or even fulvous ; the basal blotch merely suggested by 

 a small brown streak from the dorsal margin near the base ; 

 on the costa, from above this to near the apex, is a wide, 

 rough, brown black blotch in the form of a flattened solid 

 triangle ; remaining surface fainth- reticulated with obscure 

 lines and dots ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings and their 

 cilia glossy smoky-brown. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings polished pale lead-colour, 

 faintly spotted along the costa with white. Hind wings 

 smoky-white. 



Variable in the ground colour from ashy-grey to reddish- 



