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capture of several specimens took place at Burnmouth, Eye- 

 mouth and elsewhere near Berwick-on-Tvveed. In Ireland it 

 has been found near Dublin and in Kerry. 



Abroad it has an immense range, through Southern, 

 Central and Western Europe, Southern Germany, Switzer- 

 land, and Livonia ; Asia Minor, Armenia, India (whence a 

 small variety has received the name of succinea), Japan, the 

 Barbary States, Egypt, Aden, the Canaries, South Africa 

 (where it abounds and varies exceedingly in size as well as 

 colour) ; Australia, New Zealand, Java, Formosa ; and as 

 already expounded at some length, in multitudes in the 

 Central and Southern portions of North America. 



2. H. peltigera, Schiff.; peltiger, Staud. Cat. — Expanse 

 1J inch. Fore wings light red-brown with a faintly darker 

 transverse band ; reniform stigma dark brown, extended to 

 the costa ; a round black dot at the anal angle. Hind wiDgs 

 smoky-brown, toward the base whitish. 



Antennae of the male simple, minutely ciliated, reddish- 

 brown ; palpi small, horizontal, moderately tufted, whitish- 

 brown ; eyes large, black-brown ; head whitish-brown, the 

 scales pressed down level and pointing forward ; thorax 

 smooth, pale reddish-brown or reddish-drab, the back portion 

 paler and the scales only drawn together in the faintest 

 manner; fascicles yellowish-white; abdomen very smooth, 

 whitish-brown ; lateral and anal tufts well developed, the 

 latter reddish-drab. Fore wings rather pointed, costa very 

 slightly arched throughout ; apex sharply augulated ; hind 

 margin gently curved ; dorsal margin straight ; colour soft 

 reddish-drab or pale reddish-brown, clouded with fawn 

 colour ; no basal line ; first line faintly indicated, arising 

 from a brown dot on the costa, and forming rather deep 

 angles of the faintest possible redder shade ; second line 

 almost equally faint, formed of a series of deep crescents, 

 their points of junction each marked by a minute white dot ; 

 subterminal line a curved pale shade which bounds, outwardly, 



