232 LEPIDOPTERA. 



of Mr. Sydney Webb. It is figured in the frontispiece of the 

 Entomologists' Annual for 1860. The next British specimen 

 of which there is any certainty was a fine female taken at 

 sugar on June 4th, 1875, in an oak wood near Horsham, 

 Sussex, by Mr. W. Borrer, of Hurstpierpoint, in whose 

 cabinet it still finds a place, though now in my hands for the 

 purposes of this work. In the same year a specimen was 

 found on June 9th sitting upon an oak-trunk near Colchester, 

 Essex, and was recorded by Mr. W. H. Harwood, from whose 

 possession it passed into the collection of Dr. F. D. Wheeler. 

 The fourth was recorded in 1882 by Mr. Sydney Webb, who 

 found it in the possession of a working collector, quite fresh, 

 captured by him near Dover on the previous evening. The 

 last capture of which I have any reliable knowledge was of a 

 specimen taken at sugar at 9.30 p.m. on June 24th, 1888, at 

 St. Leonards, Sussex, by the eldest son of my colleague 

 upon the Entomologists 1 Monthly Magazine, Mr. Edward 

 Saunders. 



The captures in these Islands appear, therefore, to be 

 limited as yet to Hants, Kent, Sussex, and Essex. Abroad it 

 has a considerable range through France, Belgium, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Hungary, Galicia, Corsica, Sardinia, Northern 

 Italy. Southern Spain, Greece, and Southern Eussia. 



Family 3. SARROTHRIPIDiE. 



Moths of small or moderate size ; the fore wings with the 

 costa and inner (dorsal) margin arched near the base, then of 

 nearly even width throughout, and almost always with raised 

 buttons of scales in the cell or raised lines upon the wings ; 

 veins 3 and 4 of the hind wings united. The palpi either 

 porrect and rostriform or upturned ; legs with the tarsal joints 

 short. 



LarvyE with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, sparsely 

 clothed with hair in the known species. 



