236 LEPIDOPTERA. 



in Ayrshire, Lanark, and the rest of the Clyde Valley with 

 Argyleshire, also in Perthshire, and rarely in Kincardineshire 

 and Aberdeenshire. In Ireland it is found commonly in 

 Dublin County, Wicklow, Cork, Kerry, Mayo, Gal way, 

 Fermanagh, Antrim and Derry, and probably in all wooded 

 districts. Abroad it is abundant throughout Central Europe 

 and a great part of Northern Europe, and found in Northern 

 Italy. Moreover, in North America, at Vancouver Island, it 

 is found commonly and in similar variety, and its larva, not 

 varying from our forms, abundantly upon cherry and plum- 

 trees. Upon this subject there is a long article in the 

 Canadian Entomologist for 1894. 



3. H. progemmaria, Huh. ; marginaria, Stand. Cat. 

 — Expanse 1;^ to 1| inch. Fore wings pale ochreous-brown 

 with smoky suffusion, and a dark smoky central shade ; 

 second line forming the inner edge of a red-brown stripe, 

 twice obtusely angulated : hind wings dusky white, tinged 

 with tawny behind. Female semi-apterous, having small 

 useless lobes of wings, the hinder lunate. 



Antennae of the male pectinated to the tips with short, 

 well ciliated teeth, pale brown ; palpi very small, pointed, 

 purplish-brown ; face of the same colour ; top of the head 

 paler brown, both rather rough ; thorax slender and weak, 

 yellow-brown ; abdomen short and small, pale yellow dusted 

 with brown ; lateral tufts very small, anal tuft narrow. 

 Fore wings somewhat elongated ; costa nearly straight, 

 excei^t that it is arched before the apex, which is rounded ; 

 hind margin gently curved, long and oblique ; dorsal margin 

 faintly rounded, ciliated ; colour dull pale yellow-brown, 

 ochreous-brown or pale tawny, in any case clouded or dusted 

 with smoke-colour; first line erect, indented, very slender, 

 black-brown ; second line rather erect from the dorsal mai'gin, 

 but bent out and up above the middle, brown-black ; between 

 them is a straight, erect, smoky-black or smoky-brown central 

 shade, not always visible ; a blackish crescent indicates the 



