3 1 2 LEPID OP TERA . 



odd specimens. Nothing is then more easy than to get a 

 dozen into the net at one time, for the creatures are not 

 timid nor swift of flight. It should be borne especially in 

 mind that specimens so captured must not be carried far in 

 pill or chip boxes, but if possible should be at once pinned 

 into a damp collecting-bos ; since they are so fragile, and so 

 liable to die and become dried up if so boxed, that probably 

 not a single specimen will remain fit for setting after being- 

 carried in a pill-box for a few miles. Even if pinned in a 

 dry box the result is little better. Probably a more widely 

 distributed species than is even now known ; but it has been 

 found, usually in abundance, in localities such as I have 

 described, in Surrey, Hants, Berks, Dorset, Somerset, Glou- 

 cestershire, Norfolk (in myriads), Warwickshire, Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, and Cumberland. In Scotland in Perthshire ; 

 in Ireland in abundance in the bogs of Kerry, and doubt- 

 less in many other places. Abroad its range seems to be 

 limited to Northern Germany, Silesia, Galicia, Livonia, and 

 Finland. 



Genus 8. BOMOLOCHA. 



Antennas of the male ciliated ; palpi moderately long, 

 pointed, porrected, (in the female more slender) ; eyes naked, 

 but furnished with long, curled, back lashes ; head hairy ; 

 thorax crested at the back ; abdomen ornamented with one 

 to three crests ; legs normal ; fore wings trigonate, rather 

 pointed, crenulated behind, differing in colour in the sexes. 



We have but one species. 



1. B. crassalis, Fab. ; fontis, Stand. Cat. — Expanse 1£ 

 to 1^ inch. Fore wings pointed, broadly triangular, with 

 full hind margin ; pale brownish-grey or white, with a large 

 velvety black or chocolate blotch from the costa more than 

 half across the wing, followed by black and white dots and a 

 black or brown apical streak. Hind wings plain. 



