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from the Hartz Mountains of Germany being very brightly 

 coloured — also the Ural Mountain district, and the moun- 

 tainous regions of Central Asia. In America it is found in 

 Canada and the Hudson's Bay territory, of a rather lax-ge 

 size and slightly different tint of grey, but otherwise agreeing 

 accurately: it is there known under the name of Germana. 



[Calophasia platyptera, Esp. — A pretty little species 

 of an inch expanse, something like a small Cucullia. Antenna? 

 simple, ciliated, brown ; head and thorax greyish-white ; fore 

 wings rather narrow, broader behind ; smooth shining white, 

 shaded with pale brown and grey-brown ; markings very 

 obscure ; nervures faintly brown ; first line represented by a 

 brown dash on the costa, and by one or perhaps two long 

 sweeping angles of a brown line above the dorsal margin, but 

 it is difficult to say whether the upper of these is not really 

 the claviform stigma much elongated ; a short distance 

 beyond it a long curved streak arises on the dorsal margin as 

 a partial second line, but disappears before the middle of the 

 wing, though there is a pair of brown dots opposite to it on 

 the costa ; no upper stigmata nor subterminal line, but the 

 dorsal margin is clouded with brown, except toward the anal 

 angle, the portion between the first and second lines especi- 

 ally so, and from this a faint darker cloud proceeds straight 

 towards the apex ; along the hind margin is a series of deeper 

 brown streaks upon the ends of the nervures and continued 

 through the cilia, which are white and rather long. Hind 

 wings white tinged on the nervures and toward the hind 

 margin with brown ; cilia white. 



The larva is found upon Zinaria in the South of Europe. 



The pupa has been found in Morocco enclosed in a cocoon 

 formed of coloured lichens. 



The capture of a single specimen, by himself, near Brighton, 

 in September 1896, was recorded by Mr. J. T. Carrington. 

 This specimen was shortly afterwards exhibited by its captor 

 at a meeting of the South London Entomological Society ; he 



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