6o LEPIDOPTERA. 



light, outside the Sussex County Hospital at Brighton, by 

 jNIr. J. W. Winter; the other at Margate. Several years 

 seem to have elapsed without any addition to the number, 

 but in 1862 another was secured at the Hospital at Brighton, 

 and a female was obtained at Deal. In September 1865 two 

 were taken at Gosport, Hants, and from eggs laid by one of 

 these, larvEe were reared the next year; another was captured 

 in 1867 at Deal. Several years again elapsed, but in 1877 

 three were taken at light at Alverstoke, Hants, and in 1879 

 about a dozen at Gosport. In 1880 a female captured at a 

 gas-lamp at Deal laid eggs, from which, in August of the 

 following year, a number of very fine examples were reared 

 by the late Mr. Tugwell, and to his skill and success in 

 continuing the breed I, among many others, am indebted for 

 a very fine series. Others were captured in following years 

 at Deal, Folkestone, Dover, Hythe, Chichester, and Margate, 

 in 1897 a larva at AValmer, in Kent, and in 1898 the 

 moth was recorded as taken at Shoebviryness, Essex. Thus it 

 seems to have been captured at large in Kent, Sussex, Hants, 

 and Essex, and there is a single unconfirmed record in Corn- 

 wall. But the vast majority of specimens in collections here 

 are the result of continuous rearing from the Q^^. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe and mucli 

 of the temperate portion of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, 

 the Ural Mountain district, Tartary, and Japan ; also in 

 Canada, Nova Scotia, and some other parts of North 

 America. 



2. E. alniaria, L. ; tiliaria, Stn.- — Expanse \\ to 1| 

 inch. Head and thorax light canary-yellow ; fore wings 

 pointed, conspicuously angulated above the middle of the 

 hind margin, orange-ochreous, with two well-curved trans- 

 verse lines ; hind wings scalloped behind and with a pro- 

 jecting central point. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with solid curved ciliated 

 teeth, the rows lying near together, pale ochreous ; palpi 



