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ing mosses ; and is widel}- spread in Scotland, recorded from 

 Berwickshire, Eoxbnrglishire, the Pentland Hills and near 

 Edinburgh, Wigtownshire, Dunoon, Loch Long, and Arran, 

 Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, Sutherlandshire, 

 and the Orkneys and Hebrides. I can find no record of its 

 presence in Wales, but in Ireland it has a wide distribution 

 in bogs, in the County Dublin, Cork, Kerry, Galway, Sligo, 

 Westmeath, Leitrim, Armagh, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Down, 

 and Derry. Abroad it is somewhat local, found in Northern 

 France, Holland, Belgium ; and in a more obscure local 

 variation in Southern and Eastern Kussia. 



Genus 15. SELIDOSEMA. 



Antennas of the male densely plumose ; palpi small ; head 

 and thorax smooth, the latter rather thick ; abdomen long, 

 slender, and tapering ; fore wings broad, elongated, and 

 pointed ; hind wings ample. 



We have only one species. 



1. S. plumaria, Schiff. ; ericetaria, Stand. Cat. — Ex- 

 panse l^ to If inch. Antennte of the male conspicuously 

 plumose ; fore wings grey-brown with three red-brown costal 

 spots, a narrow central stripe and the hind marginal region 

 purplish-brown. Hind wings rather paler with a similar 

 hind border. Female much smaller, its antennas simple. 



Antennas of the male densely pectinated with long, very 

 slender, ciliated teeth, or rather filaments which taper off 

 below the apex, dark brown ; palpi slender, rather projecting, 

 brown ; face smooth, top of the head rougher and separated 

 by a transverse channel, dark chocolate ; eyes ver}^ black ; 

 thorax not very thick, loosel}^ covered with long purplish- 

 brown hair-scales ; abdomen long and tapering, smooth and 

 shining, silvery-brown dusted with black; lateral and anal 

 tufts small. Fore wings elongated, pointed, and rather 

 trigonate ; costa mainly straight but slightly arched at the 



