274 LEPIDOPTERA. 



South-east of Scotland, and, strange to say, one, which 

 appears to be confirmed, in the Hebrides ! In Ireland it 

 seems to be most frequent in the West, and has been taken 

 even in Garinish Island, off the coast of Kerry, also elsewhere 

 in that county, and in Galway, Tipperary, Wicklow, the 

 neighbourhood of Dublin, and in the King's County. Abroad 

 it has a wide range through Central Europe and a large 

 portion of Southern Europe, Sweden, Livonia, Bithynia, 

 Armenia, portions of Asia Minor, and even Japan. 



Genus 43. LOMASPILIS. 



Antennae simple, palpi minute, head, thorax, and abdomen 

 very smooth and slender, the latter short ; fore wings rather 

 elongated, narrowly ovate, with very oblique hind margin; 

 hind wings broadly rounded, squared at the anal angle ; both 

 clothed with minute shining scales. 



We have but one species. 



1. L. m.arginata,Z. — Expanse f to 1 inch. All the wings 

 white, broadly bordered with irregular interrupted blotches, 

 or bands, of dark slate colour or purplish-black, often having 

 also a central band of similar spots. 



Antennas of the male simple, minutely ciliated, purple- 

 black ; palpi very minute, purple-brown ; tongue well de- 

 veloped ; eyes jet black ; face smooth, purple-black ; head 

 dusky-brown ; thorax smooth, purple-black, glossy and 

 iridescent ; abdomen similar ; lateral tufts of moderate size ; 

 anal tuft very small. Fore wings rather narrow ; costa well 

 arched ; apex somewhat bluntly rounded ; hind margin 

 oblique but not much curved ; dorsal margin rather straight 

 and strongly ciliated, very silky- white ; a large slate-black 

 basal blotch extends as a stripe to nearly the middle of the 

 costa, but below is much cut off and angulated ; along the 

 middle of the costa and for some distance beyond is another 

 blotch or stripe of the same colour, attenuated below, 

 but often extending over one-half the width of the wing^ 



