76 LEPIDOPTERA. 



iu dull weather, ancl difficult to see upon the wing from the 

 darkness of colour of its hind wings. Not known to fly at 

 all at night. Sufficiently common in the woods of the South 

 of England from Kent and Essex to Dorset, and Wilts and 

 Berks, and in Oxfordshire, Herefordshire and Worcester- 

 shire ; found also in Suffolk, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Lanca- 

 shire, Yorkshire and Westmoreland ; and in Wales I have 

 met with it in Cauaston Wood, Pembrokeshire. In Scotland 

 it is recorded in Perthshire by Dr. White and Sir Thos. 

 MoncriefF, but I find no other notice lof its occurrence in 

 that country, nor any in Ireland. Abroad it is widely dis- 

 tributed over Central and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, 

 Armenia, Asia Minor, the Trans-Caucasian region, Siberia, 

 Corea and Japan. 



Genus IG. ERIOPSELA. 



Antennas short, thick, notched and ciliated; palpi long, 

 diverging, broadly tufced •, thorax smooth ; fore wings 

 rhomboid, pointed at the apex ; not folded ; hind wings 

 tufted at the base. 



A. Central band of fore wings broad over the anal angle. 



E. (luadrana. 

 A-. Centi^al band narrow or absent over the anal angle. 



E. fradifascuma. 



1. E. fractifasciana. Haw. — Expanse about h inch 

 (10-12 mm.). Fore wings narrow and pointed at the apex; 

 grey with a squared brown basal blotch and narrow oblique 

 central band often very obscure. 



Antennas ciliated, black- brown ; palpi, head and thorax 

 dark umbreous ; abdomen grey-black. Fore wings rather 

 elongated ; costa scarcely arched, not folded ; apex rather 

 produced and sharply rounded, hind margin oblique and 

 straight; colour leaden grey thickly dusted with brown; 



