44 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. Therefore common in the 

 Eastern Counties from Kent to Norfolk, including Cambridge- 

 shire, and also in Sussex, Hants, Dorset and Devon, and local 

 in Cornwall. Apparently absent from many districts which 

 seem to furnish sufficiently suitable spots, and, so far as I can 

 ascertain, not recorded elsewhere in England, except that a 

 most perplexing capture is on record at Silloth, Cumberland. 

 It is, however, common upon the coast of South Wales to 

 Pembrokeshire. So far as can be definitely ascertained, not 

 known elsewhere in the United Kingdom. Abroad it is 

 found in Central France, Corsica, of rather large size in 

 Spain, also in Portugal, Turkey, and elsewhere in Southern 

 Europe ; and in Asia Minor, Syria, Cyprus, and Northern 

 Africa. 



3. A. gilvaria, aS'c/«j^:— Expanse 1] to \\ inch. Fore 

 wings pointed ; straw-colour dusted with light brown ; beyond 

 the middle an oblique straight pale brown stripe points 

 directly to the apex. Hind wings white. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with stiff solid oblique 

 ciliated teeth, yellowish-grey; palpi minute, yellowish- 

 brown ; eyes dull black ; head hardly roughened, pale yellow ; 

 thorax similar, slender, more fluffy with raised scales ; abdo- 

 men long, smooth, yellowish- white; lateral tufts hardly 

 visible; anal tuft pale yellow. Fore wings elongated, not 

 broad ; costa nearly straight ; apex bluntly pointed ; hind 

 margin long, oblique, but only moderately curved, except at 

 the anal angle ; doi'sal margin a little rounded ; pale yellow 

 or straw-colour, faintly tinged at the base and along the costa 

 with ochreous ; a single, straight, and very oblique pale 

 purple-brown stripe beyond the middle arises near the dorsal 

 margin and is there broadest, but tapers off to a point at the 

 apex of the wing ; discal spot cloudy brown ; cilia whitish- 

 yellow. Hind wings elongated and large, rounded or a little 

 squared behind, silky yellowish-white, without markings, or 

 with only a faint suggestion of an oblique cloudy stripe ; cilia 



