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especially, sittiug upon the trunks of trees. Comuuni iu 

 woods throughout England and Wales and the Lowlands of 

 Scotland, extending to Perthshire. It is exceeding curious 

 tbat the only record which I cau find for Ireland is at 

 Lambay Island in Dublin Bay. Abroad it occurs throughout 

 Central and Southern Europe, and in Sweden and Livonia. 



Genus 5. OLINDIA. 



Autennaa thick, ciliated ; palpi divergent, very small ; fore 

 wings short, without a fold ; hind wings with a slender basal 

 tuft. Sexes dissimilar. 



We have two species, very different. 



A. Fore wings white with brown markings in both sexes. — 



0. hyhridnna. 



A". Fore wings black-brown with a central white band; 



broken in the male. (). idraana. 



I. O. hybridana,i7'V/(. ; curvifasciana, Stcph. 6 ; recti- 

 fasciana. Haw. ? . Male | inch (15 mm.), female h inch 

 (12 mm.). Fore wings short, ovate, creamy-white with light 

 brown bands, the central band angulated in the male, straight 

 and thickened in the female. 



Antenuse of the male dark brown ; palpi and head smoky 

 brown ; thorax pale brown, dotted with darker ; abdomen 

 dull brown. Fore wings somewhat ovate, narrow ; costa 

 flatly ai'ched ; apex bluntly rounded ; creamy-white dusted 

 with yellowish-brown ; markings yellow-brown dusted with 

 black ; basal blotch rather small but complete, its margin 

 angulated outwai'dly; central band narrow, nearly perpen- 

 dicular but with faint elbow in the middle ; outside this is a 

 a spot on the dorsal margin, and beyond it a larger blotch or 

 stripe across the apex ; costa spotted with the same colour; 

 cilia white dotted with brown. Hind wings pale smoke- 

 colour ; cilia white. Female stouter but decidedly smaller ; 

 the central band broader, not elbowed, but thickened in the 

 middle. 



