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scarce ; but it is found iu large woods in Dorset, Wilts, 

 Hereford, Devon, and possibly Cornwall. It seems almost 

 incredible that it should not exist iu other southern and 

 western English localities, for it has been taken in Cumber- 

 land, in Barron Wood, and at Newby Cross ; I have myself 

 captured it in Pembrokeshire ; and only a few weeks ago I 

 saw a specimen which had been taken at the foot of Snowdon, 

 Wales, by Mr. Birch of Liverpool. In Scotland two speci- 

 mens, male and female — which, have been sent up for 

 inspection — were taken in August 1882 in Minto Woods by 

 Mr. W. G. Guthrie of Hawick. Both specimens are much 

 worn, but the species is unmistakable ; and in the present 

 year — 1900 — eight beautiful examples have been secured by 

 Mr. Adam Elliot in a fir-wood iu Roxburghshire. Dr. F. Buch- 

 anan White recorded it from the districts of Solway and 

 Clyde, but without particulars. I know of no other records 

 in the United Kingdom. Abroad it is found in Germany, 

 Switzerland, Livonia, Finland, Southern and Eastern Russia, 

 Western China and Japan. 



0. C. viduaria, ScJtiff.; angularia, Staud. Cat. — Ex- 

 panse l^- to If inch. Fore wings white, dusted with grey; 

 having a central cloudy gre}' bar and three or four transverse 

 series of black spots partly connected into lines ; hind wings 

 grey-white with spotted margin. 



Antennae of the male pectinated with rather coarse solid 

 ciliated teeth, which do not quite attain the tip, black-brown ; 

 tongue long ; palpi extremely small, reddish-brown ; face 

 smooth, lower portion white, clouded above with black, and 

 the top of the head white with black dots ; thorax slender, 

 white, the collar and shoulder-lappets edged with black ; 

 abdomen long, slender, white, barred on the basal segments 

 with black, and on the remainder with brown ; lateral and 

 anal tufts obscure. Fore wings broad, costa gently arched, 

 apex rounded, hind margin long, hardly curved, but minutely 

 crenulated ; anal angle lost in a great curve which includes 



