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when reared from tlie larvae the numbers are equal." It is 

 reasonable to conclude that the female is more active at 

 the nig'ht flight. The locality to which the above notice 

 refers — Sandburn Moss and Strensall Common, near York — 

 is the principal home of this pretty sjoecies in these Islands ; 

 but there are two or three records of its casual occurrence 

 further south. A single specimen, which I have seen, was 

 taken by Miss M. Kimber in a lane near Cope Hall, Newbury, 

 Berks ; one was taken near Arundel, Sussex, in August, 1879 ; 

 one is recorded from St. Ives, Hunts ; and two from Norfolk. 

 Further north Mr. G. Bolam has met with it occasionally — 

 as a smaller race — in Northumberland, in bogs toward the 

 northern border of the county. In Scotland it has been 

 taken near Hawick, and in 1897 was found by Mr. W. 

 Salvage well distributed in Sutherlandshire, from the sea 

 level, to about a thousand feet above, on the mountains. So 

 far as I know it has not been met with elsewhere in these 

 Islands. Abroad it has a wide distribution through Central 

 Europe, the temperate portions of Northern Europe, Northern 

 Italy, Southern and Eastern Russia, Tartary, and the 

 mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



Genus 26. METROCAMPA. 



Antennge of the male pectinated ; palpi minute ; head 

 rough, but with a transverse division ; thorax broad, mode- 

 rately fluffy ; abdomen more slender, smooth ; fore wings 

 very broad, pointed ; angulated in the middle of the hind 

 margin, margin not hollowed beneath it ; hind wings broad, 

 crenulated, and with a projecting angle in the hind margin. 



We have only one species. 



1. M. margaritata, L. — Expanse li to 1\ inches. 

 Wings all ample, angulated behind, whitish-green; fore 

 wings having two whitish transverse stripes and a brown 

 apical dot ; hind wings faintly tailed and having one central 

 white transverse stripe. 



