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common in the wooded districts of the ^Southern half of 

 England, and more local or scarcer throughout the rest of 

 the country, having been taken once in Northumberland. 

 Farther north, in more wooded districts, it is again common, 

 and I have even picked up living pup» under oak-leaves 

 lying upon the ground, in Stirlingshire ; common also in 

 Perthshire, found in Renfrew, Dumbartonshire, Argyleshire, 

 Ayrshire, and other districts of the South and West of Scot- 

 land, much more rarely in Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire, 

 and Moray, which seems to be its northern limit with us. In 

 Wales I find no record at all, yet cannot believe it to be 

 absent. In Ireland it seems to be almost unknown, but Mr. 

 Kane tells me that two specimens have been taken at Clon- 

 brock, Galway, one of them by himself. Abroad it seems to 

 occur throughout Central and Southern Europe, also in 

 Livonia, Finland, Bithynia, and Khorassan. 



3. E. trilinearia, i?(*yZ ; linearia,A%«w/. (V;!.— Expanse 

 1 to liiuch. Fore wings silky, soft rich yellowish-fulvous, 

 with a slender purplish-brown central stripe ; first and second 

 lines, when visible, slender and similar in colour ; hind wings 

 rather more ochreous, with similar lines and stripe. 



Antennas of the male pectinated, for two-thirds of their 

 length, with obli(|ue solid ciliated teeth, the remaining por- 

 tion simple, yellow-brown ; palpi of the same colour, very 

 small ; tongue well developed ; face smooth, convex, purple- 

 brown ; head rather rough, pale drab ; thorax slender, yellow- 

 brown ; abdomen smooth, whitish-brown, tiuged at the base 

 and anal tuft with ochreous. Fore wings longer and more 

 pointed than in the last species ; costn gently arched ; apex 

 sharply pointed ; hind margin beneath it faintly hollowed 

 and not much curved off, the anal angle being well formed ; 

 dorsal n^argin almost straight, strongly ciliated; colour 

 smooth pale reddish-brown ; first line faint, rather oblique, 

 but rounded back close to the costa ; some distance beyond 

 it is a conspicuous narrow purple-brown stripe or central line, 



