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Berks ; rare in Dorset, Wilts, and l^ucks, and once recorded, 

 with doubt, in Suffolk. So far as I know this is the extent 

 of its range in these Islands. Abroad it inhabits Central 

 Europe, Northern Italy, Corsica, Livonia, the Balkan States, 

 Southern and Eastern Russia, Bithynia, Tartary, Central and 

 Western China, the Corea, and Japan. 



3. B. cinctaria, Schi^. — Expanse \\ to If inch. 

 Antennae pectinated, fore wings greyish-white ; near the base 

 is a curved double black-brown band, and beyond the middle 

 another, more oblique and irregular; area beyond usually 

 clouded with dark brown ; hind wings somewhat similarly 

 banded. 



Antennae of the male pectinated with rather widely placed, 

 solid ciliated teeth, but the apical portion simple, dark brown ; 

 palpi short, horizontal, dull brown tipped with white ; tongue 

 well developed; face dark brown, upper portion of head 

 rough, whitish-brown dusted with black ; thorax slender, 

 rough with raised scales, mixed grey, brown, and white ; 

 back of the collar black ; at the hinder edge of the thorax is 

 a small white tuft tipped with black, and immediately followed 

 by a clear white bar across the basal segment of the abdomen, 

 this also is edged at the back with deep black ; and behind 

 it the abdomen, vs^hich is slender, is light brown, with a black, 

 or dark brown, edge to each segment ; lateral and anal tufts 

 tipped with white. Fore wings not broad ; costa arched at 

 the base and apex, almost straight between ; apex rounded ; 

 hind margin oblique, very little curved but regularly crenu- 

 lated ; dorsal margin nearly straight, ciliated ; colour white 

 much obscured by dusting and clouding of reddish-brown 

 and black ; first line obscurely black, oblique, curved, 

 blackened on the nervures and forming the outer edge of a 

 broad stripe of reddish-brown or black-brown atoms, the 

 other side of this band usually edged by a parallel black line ; 

 second line oblique, rather sinuous, black, slightly accentuated 

 on every nervure, and edged outwardly by a band of brown 



