362 LEPIDOPTERA. 



those of the last species, except that it is perhaps more 

 attached to damp woods, marshes, and fens, though occurring 

 in woods generally, and along hedges in lanes and fields. At 

 dusk it flies, though lazily, and afterwards may be found 

 sitting on herbage and sallow bushes, or attracted to any 

 strong light. Common in most parts of the Southern half of 

 England, except Cornwall, where it seems to be scarce, and 

 throughout the Eastern. Midland, and Western Counties ; 

 but becoming scarce in South Yorkshire, and local in the rest 

 of that County. I find no record north of this on the east 

 side of England, but on the west it reaches Cumberland. 

 Doubtless common throughout Wales, though scarcely 

 recorded further than my own observation in Pembrokeshire. 

 In Scotland it is well distributed, again reaching the Eastern 

 districts at Edinburgh and in Aberdeenshire and Kincardine- 

 shire ; in the west extending to West Ross. In Ireland 

 everywhere abundant. 



Abroad its range is very wide, over Central and Northern 

 Europe, the North of Spain and Italy, Corsica, the Ural 

 Mountain district, Bithynia, Armenia, Tartar)-, and Japan. 



Genus 6. BAPTA. 



Antennas short, simple, rather thick ; palpi small ; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen smooth, the latter short and cylindrical ; 

 fore wings not broad, apex angulated, of delicate texture ; 

 hind wings evenly rounded, but squared at the anal angle. 



Larvae smooth, stout, cylindrical. 



We have but two species, both white, but readily distin- 

 guished. 



A. Fore wings with a large silver-grey cloud beyond the 

 middle. B. temcvata. 



A 2 . Fore wings with two triangular black costal spots. 



B. taminata. 



1. B. temerata, Schiff. ; punctata, F. — Expanse 1 to 



