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in part caused by the ploughing up, and burning off, the 

 large broom fields which formerly existed ; yet in the year 

 1851 my colleague, Mr. J. W. Douglas, wrote that it had 

 formerly been plentiful among broom at Birch Wood, Surrey, 

 but was then extinct. I know of no probable locality for it 

 now in this county. There is a record of its occurrence in 

 Devon ; and these five counties seem to include the extent of 

 its modern range in England. In Scotland, Dr. F. Buchanan 

 White recorded its occurrence (as a larva) at Pitlochrie, 

 Perthshire, and Mr. H. T. Stainton added Dunkeld and 

 Bridge of Earn in the same county. I know of no other 

 records in the United Kingdom. Abroad it is somewhat 

 local, being apparently confined to Northern and Central 

 France, Belgium, Holland, Southern and Western Germany, 

 Switzerland, and Northern Italy. 



5. F. carbonaria, L. — Expanse 1 inch. Wings white, 

 dusted almost all over with black ; having four or five rather 

 erect irregular transverse black stripes on the fore wings, 

 and similar more angulated stripes on the hind. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with stifi" solid oblique 

 ciliated teeth, black-brown, back of the shaft black, dotted 

 with white ; palpi pointed, black-brown, concealed among 

 abundant hair-scales projecting forward from the head ; the 

 latter, with the thorax, is therefore very rough, black dotted 

 with white ; abdomen slender, smooth, black, barred on each 

 segment with white; lateral tufts obsolete; anal tuft small 

 and compressed. Fore wings pointed and rather narrow ; 

 costa arched at the base, and a little so at the apex, but 

 between these almost hollowed ; apex angulated ; hind 

 margin oblique, hardly rounded ; dorsal margin straight ; 

 ground colour white, but almost concealed under abundant 

 dusting of black ; first line a little curved ; second more 

 angulated, both rather erect and thickened into black stripes; 

 central stripe similar, even broader and more erect, placed 

 very little beyoud the first ; and another black stripe is 



