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Forest, Worcestershire ; and at Dunham Park, Cheshire ; 

 also in Yorkshire in a wood near Selby ; and one specimen, 

 which I have seen, in Cumberland. It even seems possible 

 that it is spreading in this country, since several of the 

 localities are but recently recorded, and I well remember my 

 own surprise at taking a specimen in a wood in Surrey, 

 which had, twenty years earlier, been one of my chief resorts, 

 but in which I had, at that time, certainly never seen it. 

 I find no record for Wales or Ireland ; in Scotland the late 

 Dr. F. Buchanan White stated that it had been taken at 

 Dumfries, but no confirmation of this has been received. 

 Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe, Central and 

 Northern Italy, Livonia, Finland, Southern and Eastern 

 Russia, Tartary, and Japan. In the last-named country it is 

 found — like so many other species — of large size, also with a 

 darker dusting of grey-brown ; or else with the markings 

 blackened and thickened ; but also quite typical. 



2. B. consortaria, Fab. — Expanse If to 2 inches. 

 Slender ; fore wings ample and rather elongate, white dusted 

 with grey-brown ; transverse lines indicated mainly by 

 slender black streaks on the nervures ; hind wings similar, 

 but the transverse lines more distinct and rippled; central 

 spot a brown ring. 



Antennce of the male pectinated with rather short, oblique, 

 ciliated teeth, to three-fourths of their length, the remainder 

 notched, pale brown ; palpi short and small, brown ; tongue 

 well developed ; eyes leaden-black spotted with deeper black ; 

 lower part of the face smooth, dull purple-brown, upper 

 portion, and the head, brownish-white, dotted with dark 

 brown ; thorax narrow, rather browner, the collar edged 

 with umbreous and the shoulder-lappets faintly barred with 

 the same ; abdomen long, whitish-brown, each segment 

 banded and dusted with dark brown ; lateral tufts hardly 

 perceptible ; anal tuft narrow. Fore wings broad, and in 

 some sort ovate ; costa arched throughout ; apex bluntly 



