312 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire. The only other record 

 that I find in the British Isles is near Belfast in Ireland, 

 where it was taken by Mr. Watts. Abroad it inhabits the 

 greater portion of Central Europe, Galicia, and Dalniatia. 



22. E. ciliella, Hvh. ; ruficiliana, Hav. — Expanse 

 f to f inch (9-16 mm.). Fore wings narrow and sharp, witli 

 straight costa and oblique hind margins ; grey-white or 

 reddish-white with a dark red-brown central band. 



Antennas dark brown ; palpi, head, and thorax brownish- 

 white ; abdomen dark brown with a yellow anal tuft. Fore 

 wings long and narrow, costa straight, apex sharply angu- 

 lated, hind margin oblique ; pale tawny, more silvery-white 

 or grej'-white toward the base ; central band moderately 

 broad, parallel with the hind margin and scarcely reaching 

 the costa, dark red-brown ; followed by a small similar 

 triangular spot on the dorsal margin ; cilia long, tawny. 

 Hind wings and their cilia smoky white. Female similar but 

 with darker hind wings. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky brown with yellow 

 cilia. Hind wings smoky white. 



Variable in size, specimens from Scottish bogs being often 

 large as well as strongly marked, while others from the same 

 district are small and insignificant. On a barren boggy 

 heath in Norfolk, flying among heather and wild gentian, I 

 have found another vai'iety, smaller than the type, having 

 the fore wings irrorated with grey scales, and the central 

 band and hinder area mort^ darkly and richly coloured than 

 usual. So i pretty and peculiar a form that it seemed as 

 though it mvd be another species, yet without definite 

 sijecific characters to separate it from the present. 



On the wing in May and June and in the North in 

 July. 



Larva plump, sluggish, shining, shortly tapering at the 

 anal extremity ; white with hardly visible spots ; head and 

 dorsal plate shining jet black; anal plate very small, pale 



