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in favourite haunts may sometimes be obtained in numbers 

 by this method, sitting on the sugared patch with its wings 

 erect. 



Restricted to woods, and local in this country, but found 

 in suitable spots in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Dorset, 

 Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wilts, Berks, 

 Oxfordshire, Hunts, Cambs, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, 

 Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, but in some of these counties 

 very scarce, or restricted to the largest woods. I know of no 

 records further north, nor for any other portion of the United 

 Kingdom. Abroad it is found through large portions of 

 Central Europe, Northern Italy, Southern Russia, Tartary, 

 and Japan. 



4. T. punctularia, 8cliiff. — Expanse 1 to \\ inch,. 

 Slender ; fore wings ovate, greyish-white, dusted with grey, 

 and having three or four obscure transverse lines, most 

 noticeable upon the costa ; hind wings of the same colour 

 with two or three lines. 



Antennas of the male simple, thickly ciliated with minute 

 bristles, light brown ; palpi very small, purple-brown ; 

 tongue well developed; eyes deep black; head hardly 

 rough, grey-brown ; thorax narrow, not very rough, pale 

 grey, dotted with brown ; abdomen smooth, whitish-brown, 

 dotted with brown ; lateral and anal tufts darker. Fore 

 wings rather ovate ; costa arched ; apex rounded ; hind 

 margin fully rounded ; dorsal margin rather full, strongly 

 ciliated ; colour whitish-grey dusted with dark grey ; the 

 first and second lines, and between them a central line, all 

 slender, curved and rather rippled, lie parallel and at even 

 distances apart, cloudy dark grey, thickened with black upon 

 and near the costa and on two or three nervures ; hind 

 marginal region beyond the second line clouded with dark 

 dull grey ; in it is, upon the costa, the commencement of a 

 fourth grey-black line or series of clouds, which edges a slender 

 rippled white subterminal line ; discal spot black ; cilia grev, 



