DELTOIDES. 3*9 



At dusk it flies rather gently, often about gardens and lanes 

 and the borders of woods ; and will come to sugar, ivy-bloom 

 and the blossoms of heather. It retires rather early, to 

 hybernate under the roof of a shed or disused building, or 

 under a thatch, ledge, or any such sheltered covering, and 

 does not become torpid except during severe frost, but moves 

 about in its hiding place, yet does not seem to fly at all until 

 the spring. It appears to be especially attached to suburban 

 gardens, and to the adjacent lanes, and is still tolerably 

 common in the London squares and outskirts ; also is found 

 more or less plentifully in all the Southern and Eastern 

 Counties of England ; all the Western, except that it is scarce 

 in Cornwall ; in the southern portion of the Midlands, and in 

 some parts of Yorkshire ; but I have no record for Wales ; 

 for Scotland only one in the extreme South, in the Tweed 

 district ; and no certain locality in Ireland. 



Abroad it seems to be found throughout Central Europe, 

 the temperate portions of Northern Europe, Spain, Italy, 

 Corsica, Northern Turkey, Southern Russia, Eastern Siberia, 

 Asia Minor, and the mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



2. H. proboscidalis, L. — Expanse 1^ to 1£ inch. Palpi 

 porrected, very long ; body not stout ; fore wings very broad, 

 pointed and somewhat trigonate, velvety-brown with two red- 

 brown transverse lines, and a wavy dotted line beyond. Hind 

 wings ample, pale smoke-colour. 



Antennas of the male slender, simple, faintly ciliated, light 

 brown ; palpi long, porrected, flatly tufted and compressed at 

 the sides, apical joint slightly bent upward ; eyes brown ; 

 head brown, rather smooth, but the scales long, laid down, 

 and pointed forwards in an angulated prostrate tuft which 

 conceals the bases of the palpi ; thorax rather narrow, smooth, 

 brown ; fascicles small and short, smoky- white ; abdomen 

 rather slender, smooth, pale brown, each segment faintly 

 edged with white, and the first and second sometimes 

 decorated each with a very small brown dorsal crest, which, 



