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it sits during" the day. At uight it will come to light, 

 even to a window. Its principal locality with us is in and 

 near Bournemouth in Hants — and here it has been both 

 captured and reared in some numbers — also near Poole, 

 Dorset ; and casual specimens have been obtained at West 

 Wickham Wood, Kent ; Guestling, Sussex ; in Surrey, and 

 in Herefordshire ; but I have no other records in these 

 Islands. Abroad it does not seem to be common, but is 

 found m the South of France, Belgium, and Northern Ger- 

 many ; and Lord Walsingham found it in Oregon, North 

 America. 



9. R. retiferana, Hcin. — Expanse | inch (15 mm.). 

 Fore wings pale silvery-brown, wdth transverse bands of rich 

 red-brown, edged with black. 



Antennae, j^alpi, and head reddish-brown ; thorax similar 

 with a silvery shading ; abdomen light brown. Fore wings 

 elongated, costa very slightly arched, apes rounded; pale 

 silvery-brown reticulated with red-brown; basal blotch 

 indicated by an indented perpendicular red-brown outer 

 edge ; central band very narrow, erect, reddish-brown edged, 

 toith UacJc, only distinct at its edges, which form a broad 

 fork from the middle to the dorsal margin ; from this 

 last point a black thread or crooked streak jDasses to the 

 apical area, which is barred and streaked with red-brown ; 

 costa streaked toward the apex with pale yellow ; cilia ]3ale 

 smoky brown. Hind wings and their cilia very pale brown. 

 Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale leaden-brown ; of hind 

 wings leaden-white. 



Larva apparently undescribed. 



When looking through the collection of Mr. J. B. Hodg- 

 kinson, at Ashton on Kibble, in company with Mr. S. J. 

 Capper and Mr. Sydney Webb in the year 1890, two speci- 

 mens of this pretty species were found, overlooked, among 



