144 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Park, Surrey, bas been looked upon as its principal locality 

 here. Either it has been somewhat overlooked, as from its 

 habits and early emergence is quite probable, or else it has 

 within the last few years extended its range, for it certainly 

 has been noticed recently in many fresh places. Besides the 

 locality in Surrey just mentioned, where in some seasons it 

 it still rather common, it has been taken in Sussex, rarely in 

 Berks and Wilts, in Devon, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk rarely, 

 Bucks, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, War- 

 wickshire, Derbyshire, North Staffordshire ; Dunham Park, 

 Cheshire ; Lancashire ; near Wakefield, Doncaster, Sheffield 

 and Huddersfield in South Yorkshire ; and rarely in West- 

 moreland. Mr. llobson has just received information of its 

 presence in the Valley of the Derwent, North Durham. 

 I find no reliable record in anj^ other part of the United 

 Kingdom. Abroad it has but a limited range, through con- 

 siderable portions of Central Europe, and Northern and 

 Central Italy. 



2. N. lapponaria, Bdv. — Expanse of male H inch, male 

 antenna) j^ectinated ; thorax and abdomen stout, hairy, 

 black ; fore wings narrow, semitransparent, edged with 

 smoky black -brown ; hind wings similar. Female apterous, 

 black with an orange dorsal line. 



Antenna of the male rather short, loosely pectinated with 

 slender ciliated hair-like teeth, black-brown ; palpi concealed 

 by abundant long black projecting hair-scales ; head de- 

 pressed, extremely shaggy, but having a broad orange patch 

 between the antennte ; thorax stout, densely covered and 

 shaggy with loug black hair-scales tipped with brownish- 

 w^hite, down the middle is an orange streak, and a fainter 

 patch of the same lies over the base of each fore wing ; 

 abdomen very shaggy, the long hairs black, tipped with 

 white ; ornamented down the middle of the dorsal region 

 with a row of orange spots ; anal tuft rather long. Fore 

 wings narrow, costa nearly straight or even faintly concave 



