272 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Norfolk, and Northamptonshire ; more rarely in Lincoln- 

 shire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Durham, 

 Cumberland, and Northumberland. In Wales it must also 

 be widely distributed, though the records are few ; it is not, 

 however, uncommon in suitable spots in Pembrokeshire. 

 Apparently scarce in Scotland, but found near Hawick, in 

 East Lothian, even in Aberdeenshire, where two specimens 

 have been taken ; and in the west in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, 

 and Argyle. Dr. Buchanan White recorded it for almost all 

 the South of Scotland. In Ireland it is very local, but found 

 near Dublin, in King's County, Westmeath, and more 

 plentifully in Gal way. Abroad it seems to range over the 

 whole of the continent of Europe except the coldest portions, 

 Asia Minor, Armenia, Tartary, and the mountain regions of 

 Central Asia. 



2. E. mi, Clerch. — Expanse 1 to If inch. Moderately 

 slender ; fore wings short and broad ; pale grey-brown 

 marbled with darker, and with pale lines so disposed as to 

 form the features in profile of a human face, with a black 

 dot for the eye. Hind wings yellow, deeply banded and 

 streaked with black-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, rather thick, minutely 

 ciliated, purplish-brown with paler annulations ; palpi rather 

 small, pointing obliquely upwards, blackish-brown, the lower 

 portion dusted with white; eyes brown; head golden-brown 

 mixed with black ; thorax narrow, of the same colour, the 

 scales long and rather loosely laid ; fascicles whitish-brown ; 

 abdomen smooth, rounded, dull black, with a pale yellow 

 ring at the edge of each segment, and a dusting of similar 

 hair-scales ; anal tuft narrow. Fore wings short and broad ; 

 costa faintly arched toward the base and apex, otherwise 

 straight or even faintly hollowed ; apex bluntly rounded ; 

 hind margin very gently curved, yet but little oblique ; dorsal 

 margin rather full ; colour grey-brown dusted with purplish- 

 brown and white ; basal line suggested by a small chocolate 



