So LEPIDOPTERA. 



flying at dusk, about flowers, on a sunny terrace at Witley, 

 Surrey, by Miss Ada Evans ; it is now in the collection of 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher. No other captures have come under 

 my notice, except of the larva. In this state it has been 

 found at Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Darenth Wood, and 

 Deal, Kent; at Tilgate, Abbotts Wood, and Hayward's- 

 Heath, Sussex ; near Horndean, Hants ; Birch Wood and 

 Witley, Surrey ; and Epping Forest, Essex ; but outside 

 these five counties I have no knowledge of its presence in 

 these Islands. 



Abroad it has a considerable range : France, Switzerland, 

 Central and Southern Germany, Hungary, Finland, Kussia, 

 and the mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



6. C. absynthii, L. — Expanse \\ to If inch. Fore 

 wings narrow at the base, greyish- white with a purplish 

 flush ; a double black bar before and another just beyond the 

 middle ; stigmata indicated by round black dots in pairs \ 

 hind margin dotted with black. Hind wings white faintly 

 shaded behind with smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male rather thick, naked, brown in front, 

 white at the back ; palpi very short and blunt, white mixed 

 with dark brown ; head thickly tufted, pale grey, barred 

 three times and shaded with black; at the base of each 

 antenna is a large loose white tuft ; collar very long and 

 strongly peaked, pale grey, but its base dark brown, edged 

 with a black bar, which also curves up the middle to a 

 point ; above this twice faintly barred with pale brown, and 

 edged at the back with smoky-brown ; shoulder-lappets 

 large and long, greyish- white edged with pale brown and 

 dotted with dark brown ; central portion of the thorax light 

 brown ; top crest concealed by the peak of the collar ; back 

 crest black, tipped with white ; fascicles very abundant, 

 white ; abdomen pale brown dusted with black, but plen- 

 tifully covered with long white hair-scales ; on the first three 

 segments are large black crests ; lateral tufts small, white ; 



