jio LEPIDOPTERA. 



Kerry, but there is little doubt that its actual range is far 

 wider. The only record in Scotland seems to be at Loch- 

 gilphead, in the north of the Clyde valley. Abroad it inhabits 

 France, Hollaud, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, and Galicia, 

 as well as Madeira and St. Helena. 



Genus 7. SCHRANKIA. 



Antennas notched and minutely ciliated ; palpi long, 

 slender, curved throughout into a sickle-shape ; eyes naked 

 and without lashes ; head depressed ; thorax narrow and 

 weak, smooth but with a small knob at the back ; abdomen 

 very small, slender, and smooth ; legs normal ; fore wings 

 narrow and blunt ; hind wings rather small. 



We have only one species. 



1. S. turfosalis, Wk. — Expanse \ to f inch. Very 

 slender, small, and weak; fore wings narrow, truncate, pale 

 umbreous, with two straight, oblique, darker umbreous trans- 

 verse lines, the second running into the apex of the wing. 

 Hind wings dark grey. 



Antennas of the male simple, minutely ciliated, brown ; 

 palpi slender, not very long, but sickle-shaped and curved up 

 above the head, pale brown ; eyes black, but the head is so 

 much depressed that they are not visible from above ; head 

 rather broadly covered with scales, whitish-brown ; thorax 

 similar, smooth, but with a small raised tuft at the back ; 

 abdomen very small and slender, shining pale grey, dusted 

 with dark grey and golden-brown ; anal tuft yellow. Fore 

 wings narrow, oblong, truncate ; costa a little arched, especi- 

 ally towards the base ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind mai'gin 

 almost perpendicular, faintly curved, but the anal angle 

 prominent ; dorsal margin straight ; colour dull pale umbre- 

 ous, basal half rather the darker; basal line not indicated, 

 and the first line only by the faintest possible irregular black 

 striga, most noticeable towards the costa : second line rather 



