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the south coast from Keut to Devon and inland in Surrey. 

 Berks, Wilts, Oxfordshire, Cambs, Herefordshire, and Wor- 

 cestershire, also in Essex, Suffolk, and Lancashire. In 

 Scotland it has been found in Roxburghshire, and near 

 Hawick ; and in Ireland on the Hill of Howth, near Dublin, 

 where it is common. Abroad its range seems not to be 

 known, it being constantly confounded with other species ; 

 but it is believed to occur in South Germany ; and Dr. 

 Chapman has found it at He St. Marguerite on the coast of 

 France. 



■1. L. beatricella, IFlsm. — Expanse |- inch (15 mm.). 

 Fore wings pale yellow, with well-defined chocolate trans- 

 verse stripes which are curved. 



Antennte notched, thickly ciliated, brown ; palpi, head. 

 and thorax ochreous-yellow ; abdomen grey-brown, with a 

 pale yellow anal tuft. Fore wings somewhat narrow, but 

 the costa arched, more especially so toward the apex, which 

 is rounded ; hind margin not very oblique ; soft delicate 

 primrose-yellow ; on the base of the costa is a short chocolate 

 streak ; beyond this are two transverse curved chocolate 

 stripes or bands, not very narrow, nor very oblique, rather 

 irregular, almost forming spots, and both constricted near 

 the costa ; cilia yellowish-white. Hind wings and their cilia 

 pale smoke colour. Female a little larger and with darker 

 hind wings, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the . fore wings shining pale lead-colour : 

 cilia yellowish white. Hind wings smoky white. 



On the wing at the end of -June and in Julj-. 



Larva dirty white ; head shining black ; plates of the 

 colour of the body, the dorsal with two black dots, the anal 

 with one. (W. Purdey.) 



Feeding in the stem of wild parsnip (Pastinaca satica). 



This is a species of quite recent discovery. It was 

 described and named by Lord Walsingham in the year 1898 ; 



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