56 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Norfolk. Passing northward it becomes more plentiful, and 

 in some parts of the North of England is common enough ; 

 also in Scotland in the districts of the Tweed, Solway, Clyde 

 and Forth, abundant in Perthshire and Moray, and fairly 

 common even in the Orkneys. Doubtless in all parts of 

 Wales, since it has been found at Colwyn Bay, Dolgelly, and 

 elsewhere in North Wales, in abundance in Carmarthenshire, 

 and more rarely in Pembrokeshire. Very widely distributed 

 in Ireland but always scarce, yet recorded from Dublin, 

 Wicklow, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Mayo, 

 Monaghan, Louth, Down, Antrim, Armagh, Fermanagh, 

 Tyrone, and Deny. Abroad its range extends over the whole 

 of Europe except the extreme north and south, Asia Minor, 

 Siberia, and Japan. In the last-named is a form more than 

 usually clouded with smoky suffusion, which has received the 

 name oifumosa. 



2. C. vetusta, Hub.— Expanse 2£ to 2± inches. Fore 

 wings very long, straight and rather narrow, bluntly pointed ; 

 pale reddish-drab, clouded along the dorsal half with red- 

 black ; reniform stigma edged with a black or red-black 

 cloud from which a long single black streak runs to the sub- 

 terminal line. Hind wings smoky reddish-brown. 



Antennas of the male long, slightly notched toward the 

 base, ciliated with small tufts of most minute bristles, light 

 brown ; palpi short and thick, red-brown, edged with short, 

 thick, blunt, black hair-scales ; eyes and their lashes black 

 head densely scaled and very blunt in front, the face red- 

 black with a paler cross-bar, becoming red-drab at the base of 

 the antennas, and above this pale reddish-drab, with a deep 

 central division ; front of the collar red-drab, faintly barred, 

 in double arches, with white, fulvous, and deep black, above 

 this it is purple-black ; shoulders squared, and with raised 

 epaulets, pale drab outside, but the back purple-black, the 

 top crest very short, divided, black, the back crest a mere 

 curved-up black tuft ; fascicles reddish-white ; basal segments 



