BOARMID&—HALIA. 381 



Galway, Roscommon, Meath, Westmeath, and to Slieve 

 Donard in County Down. Abroad its range is through 

 Central and Northern Europe, the North of Spain and Italy, 

 Central and Eastern Russia, Armenia, and Eastern Siberia. 



Genus 9. HAL.IA. 



Antennas of the male shortly pectinated; palpi small; 

 head and thorax rough ; abdomen smooth and slender ; fore 

 wings broad, blunt, and faintly refuse; hind wings broad 

 but elongated, very faintly angulated behind. 



We have but one species. 



1. H. wauaria, L.; wavaria, F. — Expanse If inch. 

 Very pale smoky-brown, or smoky-white, often with a violet 

 tino-e ; costa of fore wings ornamented with four wedge- 

 shaped red-black spots, the second making a V with a similar 

 discal spot. Hind wings plain, smoky- white. 



Antennse of the male pectinated with short stout ciliated 

 teeth, dark brown ; palpi of the same colour, short and blunt ; 

 head ashy-grey, a small ridge behind it whitish-grey ; thorax 

 rather roughened with raised scales, smoky-brown ; abdomen 

 similar, the anal tuft darker, lateral tufts minute. Fore 

 wings broad and slightly refuse, costa arched, especially so 

 toward the apex, which is bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 below it faintly hollowed ; then filled out and gently rounded 

 off; dorsal margiu rather full ; colour very pale smoky-brown, 

 or smoky-white, shading into smoky-grey along the hind 

 margin and anal angle ; four chocolate-black spots lie upon 

 the costal margin, the first narrow, and in some specimens 

 originating a faint, obscure, aud rather direct first line ; the 

 second thicker and extended so as to join an elongated black 

 discal spot, and from it make a sharp V-shaped angle ; the 

 third narrow, and originating a faintly dotted, and obscure 

 second line ; the fourth large and somewhat rhomboid, its 

 lower portion black ; costa otherwise yellowish with chocolate 

 dotting ; from the second costal spot across the opening of 



