SERICORIDA^—ANCHYLOPERA. iii 



more open parts of marshy woods, in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, 

 Hants, Dorset, Devon, Berks, Herts, Essex, Norfolk — where 

 it inhabits the fens and bogs — Cambs, Herefordshire, Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, and Westmoreland. In Scotland it has been 

 taken in Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, and in Ireland 

 is recorded from Kerry. Abroad common in Central and 

 Northern Europe, Italy, Dalmatia, South-East Eussia, and 

 Asia Minor. 



2. A. unguicella, X^wk— Expanse ^ to f inch (12-18 

 mm.). — Fore wings not very narrow, hooked at the tip, 

 glossy pale slate-grey, with red-brown basal blotch, and 

 oblique slender central band. 



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

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wings even in width, costa 

 flatly arched, apex produced to a sharp hook, hind margin 

 beneath it hollowed ; whitish grey, clouded with brown ; 

 costa regularly streaked from the base with short brown 

 lines; basal blotch large but not reaching the costa, dark 

 brown, its outer edge oblique ; central band oblique, narrow, 

 red-brown, with two projections outside ; apical region red- 

 brown, much streaked with white from the costa ; cilia white 

 with brown dashes. Hind wings smoky brown, with dull 

 white cilia. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown ; costa and apex 

 dotted with white ; hind margin shaded with the same. 

 Hind wings smoky white. 



Variable in the distinctness of the markings, which in rare 

 instances become so completely obliterated that the insect 

 can only be recognised by the s/ta^e of its fore wings, which 

 are greyish white. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva undescribed — *' on heather in April." 



This moth frequents heaths, especially ia the North ; but 

 has been taken in Surrey, Berks, Dorset, and North Devon, 



