352 LEPIDOPTERA. 



appear in June are always larger and finer in colour and 

 markings than those of the other two broods." 



The moth appears to exist in almost every hawthorn hedge 

 in these Islands. It may anywhere be beaten out in the 

 daytime, or seen at rest under a leaf on a hedge-bank. It 

 flies briskly and plentifully at dusk, and is so strongly 

 attracted by light as to fly at once stupidly into a flame. 

 There is no appearance of double broodedness in its more 

 northern range, and doubtless the overlapping broods, noticed 

 in the south, are there absent. So far as is known it has not 

 been taken further north than Mora}- and the Hebrides, but 

 in England, Wales and Ireland its abundance is universal. 

 Also found in all parts of the Continent of Europe, except 

 the coldest ; and in Asia Minor, Armenia, Eastern Siberia, 

 and Northern Africa. 



Genus 4. VENILIA. 



Antennas simple, palpi minute, head and thorax rough, 

 abdomen smooth and slender, fore wings with the apex 

 squared and the hind margin beneath it faintly hollowed, 

 hind wings slightly squared. 



We have only one species. 



1. V. maculata, L. — Expanse 1 to 1| inch. Slender, 

 orange-yellow, all the wings spotted, in transverse rows, with 

 dull yellowish-black, usually blacker on the hind wings. 



Antennas of the male rather short and thick, notched, 

 almost naked, purple-brown ; palpi very small, and, with the 

 head, covered with rather rough scales of mixed j^ellow and 

 black ; thorax narrow, similar, the scales not very long ; 

 abdomen slender, smooth, black-brown, dusted with yellow ; 

 lateral tufts minute ; anal tuft small, yellow. 



Fore wings retuse, moderately broad ; costa gently arched ; 

 apex angulated ; hind margin just below it faintly hollowed, 

 but in the middle elbowed, and rounded off below ; dorsal 



