332 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Kincardineshire, and in plenty in some of the wooded dis- 

 tricts of Moray, In Ireland it seems to have been recorded 

 only in Westmeath. Abroad its range is through Central 

 and Northern Europe, Piedmont, Southern and Eastern 

 Russia, Eastern Siberia, the mountainous regions of Central 

 Asia, and Labrador. 



2. B. notha, Hub. — Expanse 1^ to If inch. Antenna' 

 pectinated. Fore wings triangular, grey-brown, banded with 

 black-brown; hind wings orange-red with markings as in 

 the last species. 



Antennas of the male shortly but distinctly pectinated with 

 almost naked oblique solid teeth which are thickened at their 

 tips, black ; palpi short, black, and. with the head, almost 

 hidden by abundant stiff projecting grey-brown hairs, thorax 

 narrow, similarly black and hairy ; abdomen slender, rather 

 hairy, black-brown ; anal tuft small. Fore wiugs almost 

 triangular, shorter than in the last species, broad behind ; 

 costa faintly arched, almost straight ; apex angulated ; hind 

 margin rounded and full, hardly oblique, the anal angle well 

 developed ; dorsal margin straight ; colour grey-brown or 

 blackish-brown with a subdued undertone of tawny ; first 

 line oblique, black, very little indented, faintly edged in- 

 wardly with dusky white ; and very often outwardly by a 

 broad oblique straight band of the dark ground colour ; and 

 this by an even broader parallel stripe of pale grey or brownish- 

 grey ; second line also black, rather erect, a little indented 

 and bent outwardly in rather larger angles in its upper 

 portion, edged outside with a white or pale brown thread ; 

 subterminal line very distinct, broadly black, shaded off in- 

 wardly, and bordered outside with a white line which is dusted 

 with black ; reniform stigma completely margined with black ; 

 beyond the second line is a white crescent on the costa, and 

 near the apex a whiter costal dot; cilia black-brown dusted 

 with white. Hind wings rather squared behind, rich orange- 

 fulvous ; from the base the dorsal half of the wing is occupied 



