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strong light. No doubt its principal haunts are around and 

 iu woods, but it is not at all confined to them, being appa- 

 rentl}^ also attached to oaks in hedgerows and along high 

 roads ; and it is occasionally found even in fens. Never very 

 common, but found in moderate numbers, or casually, 

 throughout the South of England, and more frequently in 

 the great woods such as the New Forest ; also in the 

 Eastern and Western Counties — except that I have no 

 record from Cornwall — and more rarely in the Midlands \ 

 noticed in almost every county, to Yorkshire and Lancashire, 

 and Mr. J. E. Robson informs me of the capture of two 

 specimens in Durham. In Wales I find it recorded from 

 near Swansea, and Mr. W. F. H. Blandford met with it 

 near Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland Dr. 

 Buchanan White gave its range as in the districts of " Tweed, 

 Tay, and Solway," that is to say, the extreme South of Scot- 

 land and Perthshire, but I know of no recent captures in 

 that country. In Ireland it is very rare, but is recorded as 

 having occurred at Howth near Dublin, in Cork, Kerry, and 

 Galway. Abroad its range is through Central Europe, 

 South Sweden, Northern Italy, Southern Spain, Livonia, 

 and Southern and Eastern Russia. 



5. E. angularia, Scliiff. ; quercinaria, Staud. Cat. — 

 Expanse H- to 2 inches. All the wings scalloped or crenu- 

 lated behind, with a large middle projection ; fore wings 

 pale or reddish-ochreous, with two red-brown transverse 

 lines, the first much bent back from the subcostal nervure, 

 the second curved ; hind wings pale ochreous. Female 

 paler. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with rather long solid 

 curved ciliated teeth, light fulvous ; palpi pointed, porrected, 

 orange-brown ; head rough, narrow, pale ochreous with a 

 tawny tinge ; thorax moderately broad, loosely covered with 

 long flufiy dull ochreous scales, but the front of the collar 

 and the shoulders tinted with yellow-fulvous; abdomen 



