1 1 2 LEPID OP TERA . 



also occasionally in Woolmer Forest, Hants, and in some 

 plenty in the New Forest ; rarely in Cambs, Suffolk, and 

 Norfolk, but more commonly from Cheshire northwards, and 

 throughout Scotland to the Shetland Isles. In Ireland in 

 Wicklow, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, but I have no record 

 in Wales. Abroad it is widely distributed through Central 

 and Northern Europe, Italy, Aragon, Dalmatia, and Soutli- 

 East Ru-.sia. 



3. A. uncana, Hah. ; uncella. Rein. — Expanse | to | 

 inch (15-18 mm.). Fore wings rather broad, rich red-brown 

 with a large rounded grey dorsal blotch, and another over 

 the anal angle ; apex hooked. 



Antennge and palpi black-brown ; head and thorax choco- 

 late-brown ; abdomen dull brown. Fore wings of moderate 

 breadth, costa strongly arched, apex very sharpl}- pointed 

 and produced or hooked ; hind margin rounded, rather full 

 below ; rich red-brown or tawny red, shading paler toward 

 the costa ; on the dorsal margin is a large rounded grey 

 blotch, and on the anal angle another which is invaded by a 

 red-brown hook ; costa faintly clouded with richer red-brown 

 and dotted with white. Hind wings smoky brown, cilia 

 paler. Female similar, or a little smaller. 



Underside of the fore wings shining leaden black, with 

 white costal dots and a black apical spot ; cilia dull white. 

 Hind wings leaden white. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Lakva apparently undescribed. It is said to feed in April 

 on heather (Calluna vulgaris). 



This is a lively restless species, hiding usually among 

 heather, but starting quickly up at the footstep to fly briskly 

 to another tuft. In some localities it shows a preference for 

 birch bushes, especially when there is no heather. It usually 

 frequents damp portions of heaths where both plants grow 

 mixed together. Even when flying of its own accord, which 



