90 LEPIDOPTERA. 



with its peaked thorax, crests, and forked anal tufts, is quite 

 sufficiently like a bit of rough grey wood to deceive any but 

 the keenest eye. At dusk it flies to flowers — Lychnis dioica, 

 L. vespertina, Narcissus pocticus, and others — and has been 

 known later at night to come to light, but quite disregards 

 the attraction of sugar. Never seen in any plenty in the 

 moth state, but sometimes, by close searching, found com- 

 monly as a larva. 



Widely spread in Eugland, apparently occurring in all the 

 Southern, Eastern, and Western Counties to Salop and 

 Lancashire, though rarely in some of them ; also rarely in 

 Warwickshire, North Staffordshire, and Derbyshire ; in 

 Yorkshire, and formerly in Durham, though it seems to 

 have disappeared from the Hartlepool district for twenty-five 

 years ; doubtless still existent close to the London suburbs, 

 since I met with a specimen on a fence in Camberwell a few 

 years ago. Probably throughout South Wales, since it oc- 

 curred rarely at Pembroke. In Scotland it has been recorded 

 as moderately common at Dunbar, and is found occasionally 

 throughout the Tweed, Forth, and Clyde districts and in 

 Perthshire. In Ireland apparently confined to the coast, 

 in the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, Galway, and Sligo. 

 Abroad it has an extensive range through Central and 

 Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Syria, Morocco, Egypt, and 

 Madeira. 



9. C. umbratica, Z — Expanse If to 2\ inches. Fore 

 wings long, pointed, rather broad behind ; pale grey shaded 

 along the dorsal area with smoky-black, and often tinged 

 toward the costa with brown ; nervures dark grey ; slender 

 black streaks at the base and hinder area ; stigmata indicated 

 by dots. Hind wings white with dark nervures, often darker 

 in the female. 



Antennas of the male long, stout, simple, naked, pale 

 grey ; palpi short, broadly tufted, purple-brown mixed with 

 white, apical joint rather pointed ; tongue very long ; head 



