298 LEPIDOPTERA. 



scarce in Derbyshire, and very local in Cheshire, Lancashire, 

 and Yorkshire. Probably more widely distributed, but ne- 

 glected or unHoticed. Doubtless in most parts of South 

 Wales, since it is not scarce in lanes in Pembrokeshire. In 

 Scotland it has been noticed in Ayrshire and Kirkcudbright ; 

 and in Ireland at Carlingford and Castle Bellingham, also in 

 the counties of Cork, Galway, Westmeath, and Sligo. Abroad 

 it is recorded from Belgium, Germany, South Sweden, Livonia, 

 Dalmatia, Siberia, and Tartary. 



4. H. grisealis, Huh. ; nemoralis, Stainton. — Expanse 

 1 to 1^ inch. Body very slender ; palpi long and recurved; 

 fore wings short and blunt, pale brown, with three transverse 

 dark lines, the first straight, the second curved, the third 

 arched and running into the apex. Hind wings smoky- white. 

 Fore tibias furnished with fans of long scales. 



Antennas of the male ciliated with fine but visible bristles 

 which suggest minute pectinations, light brown ; palpi slender, 

 long and curved up and back above the head, brown; eyes 

 black ; head and thorax smooth, drab, or whitish-brown ; 

 fascicles white, minute; abdomen slender, pale greyish-brown; 

 lateral tufts hardly visible ; anal tuft narrow, first pair of 

 feet aborted at the tarsi, which are clothed and broadened 

 with dense scales, the tibige being furnished with slender 

 fans of long white or pale brown hair-scales. Fore wings 

 rather short and blunt, narrow at the base ; costa gently 

 arched ; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin below it 

 perpendicular but bent in the middle, and thence more 

 oblique, the anal angle not so sharp as in the last species ; 

 dorsal margin straight ; colour pale brown or yellowish- 

 brown ; first line distinct, oblique, straight, deep brown ; 

 second line rather erect, more slender, of the same colour, 

 widely curved outwards from the middle and bending inwards 

 again to the costa ; subterminal line rather thick and con- 

 spicuous, dark brown, placed in a regular flat arch from the 

 anal angle to the apex of the wing ; reniform stigma suggested 



