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Northumberland ; and in Wales plentiful in Glamorganshire 

 and Pembrokeshire. In Scotland throughout the Lowlands 

 to Aberdeen and Dumbartonshire, also in Perthshire and the 

 Mull of Cantire ; and in Ireland on the Dublin coast, Cork, 

 Connemara, Sligo, Armagh, Antrim, Donegal, and Derry. 

 Abroad it is common throughout Central and Southern 

 Europe, Sweden, and Armenia, and in Madeira. 



5. C. caecimaculana, Huh. — Expanse | to f inch (16-22 

 mm.). Wholly dull gi-ey-brown, frosted with much silvery 

 white perpendicular streaks, basal blotch darker ; ocellus paler. 



Antennae black brown, barred with paler ; palpi and head 

 drab ; thorax light brown ; abdomen dark brown. Fore 

 wings rather elongated ; costa folded at the base, nearly 

 straight; apex angulated, almost squared, hind margin 

 slightly oblique ; greyish umbreous profusely dotted with 

 whitish brown; basal blotch darker umbreous, ill-defined, but 

 its margin erect, closely followed by a rather paler dorsal 

 blotch ; central band shadowy and ill-defined, umbreous, but 

 forming a dark edge near the dorsal margin ; ocellus large, 

 drab, very little spotted with black ; costal region umbreous 

 with numerous whitish brown costal dots ; extreme hind 

 margin thickly dotted with black ; cilia shaded, pale brown. 

 Hind wings smoky brown ; cilia whiter. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings blackish brown ; dorsal 

 region and cilia white. Hind wings smoky white. 



Usually very constant in colour, but in rare instances the 

 grey umbreous ground colour is replaced by reddish brown. 



On the wing from the end of June till August. 



Larva possibly undescribed. Gartner gives a brief descrip- 

 tion of a larva, " Stout, naked, shining jyellowish white, 

 second segment swollen, dorsal plate pale brown; head 

 smaller, honey-yellow," under this name, feeding in June in 

 the thick root of Centaurea paiiiculata, and M. Ragouot 

 records it f*=^eding in C. jacea. I have once reared it, among 



