1 56 LEPIDOP TERA . 



Its range on the nortliern beaths and moors is from the sea- 

 level to 1400 feet above. It does not seem ever to have been 

 noticed in England or Wales, or in the extreme South of 

 Scotland ; but is common on many of the mountain heaths of 

 Perthshire, Inverness-shire, Aberdeenshire — where it descends 

 to the coast — Kincardineshire, Dumbartonshire, Argyleshire 

 — including Bute and Arran — West Ross, and the Hebrides. 

 In Ireland there is a single record, which appears to be 

 reliable: Mr. G. P. Farran, of Templeogue, Dublin, states 

 that he took one specimen flying on the seashore at Dowros 

 Head, Donegal, and that it is now in the Science and Art 

 Museum, Dublin. Mr. G. H. Carpenter reports that the 

 specimen is a male, correctly identified, but darker than those 

 from Scotland. Abroad it inhabits the Alps, as a somewhat 

 paler variety than ours ; also Sweden, Livonia, Finland, and 

 in Asia the great central mountain region. 



[Dasydia torvaria, Hah. ; tenebraria, Esp. — This is 

 included as a British species in Hum'plircn and Wcstivood's 

 Britisli Motlis, and in Stainions Manual ; the latter author 

 merely remarking that " a specimen was taken many years 

 ago at Ballymena, in Ireland, by Mr. Templeton ; " but 

 in the former work Professor Westwood says : " Many years 

 ago my friend Templeton showed me a black Geometrideous 

 moth much larger than M. €](acrophyllata, which he had 

 captured on one of the mountains in Ireland, and of which I 

 at the time made a sketch. I have seen nothing like 

 the insect in any collection which I have examined. I have 

 since ascertained that the insect is the Claxjcne Fcleticraria 

 of Duponchel. A reduced copy of my sketch will appear in 

 the supplemental plates to the new edition of Wood's 

 Index Entomoloijicus. 



Every enquiry has been made, without result, as to the 

 fate of this specimen ; nothing is known of it by the 

 Curators of the Museums at Dublin and Belfast, or by 

 Mr. W. F. de V. Kane, who is so energetically and thoroughly 



