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to the neighbourhood of beech woods. Formerly it was to be 

 found in the woods close to the London suburbs, but seems 

 now to have retired further into the country. Still to be 

 found, though often sparingly, in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, 

 Hants, Berks, Middlesex, Bucks, and Wilts, very locally in 

 Dorset, in Devon plentifully on the south coast — even upon 

 sea-cliffs — also in Cornwall, but rarely in the Western portion. 

 Locally rather common in the Eastern Counties, including 

 Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire ; and in Somerset, 

 Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire; becoming 

 more local or rare in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, and 

 Yorkshire, and rare in Cumberland. Apparently throughout 

 Wales, and not rare in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland I know 

 of but a single capture, a specimen — which I have seen — 

 taken at Corsemalzie, Wigtownshire, by the Messrs. Goixlon. 

 In Ireland it is said to be plentiful at Killarney, common in 

 several localities in Galway, and found occasionally in Wicklow 

 and Sligo. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe, the Northern 

 half of Italy, Livonia, the Ural Mountain district, Tartary, 

 and Japan — those from the last-named being sometimes 

 suffused with grey. 



2. B. taminata, Hub. ; bimaculata, Haw. — Expanse 

 1 to 1| inch. Fore wings silky- white, with two black-brown 

 spots on the costa, from which frequently arise slender dotted 

 transverse lines. Hind wings silky-white with a similar line. 



Antennas of the male simple, almost naked, pale brown, the 

 back portion towards the base white ; palpi small, brown; face 

 also brown, very smooth, cut off by a sharp division between 

 the antennas from the upper part of the head, which is pure 

 white and rather rough ; thorax and abdomen smooth, snowy 

 white, but the scales on the shoulder-lappets rather raised ; 

 lateral and anal tufts very small. Costa of the fore wings 

 much arched ; apex decidedly angulated ; hind margin gently 

 curved, but the anal angle well formed ; dorsal margin 



