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clantly in wooded districts, bnl also in fields, heaths, and 

 even sfardens throughout the United Kingdom, with onh' the 

 apparent exception of the iSlietland Isles ; and is usually plen- 

 tiful. Perhaps not quite so common in the West of Scotland 

 as elsewhere. Curiously enough its range abroad does not 

 appear to be northern, and it is recorded with doubt from 

 Sweden, but is common throughout Central and Southern 

 Europe, Northern Africa, the Canaries, and Asia ^Minor. 



5. T. subsequa, Hnl. -. orbona, Stavd. Cat. — Expanse 

 1\ inch. Fore wings rather narrow, blunt, reddish-drab or 

 reddish-brown, reniform stigma dai-ker, costal triangle before 

 the apex hlacl^. ; hind wings yellow witli a narrow black border 

 and central lunule. 



Antennfp simple, slender, naked, blackish brown ; palpi 

 thickly tufted but pointed, pale brown, darker at the tips; 

 head and thorax smooth, pale olive brown ; fascicles grey- 

 brown, long and spreading; abdomen moderately stout, its 

 hinder portion rather flattened, yellow-brown ; lateral tufts 

 barely perceptible, reddish, anal tuft flat, squared, orange- 

 brown. Fore wings rather narrow — decidedly narrower than 

 in T. orhona — -costa gently curved ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin below it straight and almost perpendicular but 

 curved ott' to the anal angle ; dorsal margin straight ; colour 

 dull pale brown or drab-brown, faintly tinged with olive and 

 reddish ; lines exceedingly faint, the basal abbreviated, 

 brownish ; the first oblique, much scalloped and indented, 

 originating in a black costal dot and touching another black 

 dot on the subdorsal nervure, also faintly duplicated ; second 

 line also originating from a blackish costal dot, duplicated, 

 angulated, but often hardly visible except by indistinct dots 

 and streaks, or faint scallops ; outside this second costal black 

 spot is a white blotch, and beyond it, also on the costa but 

 nearer to the apex a sharply marked deep black triangular or 

 divided spot, from which a brownish cloudy stripe edges the 

 paler subterminal line ; at the extreme hind margin is a r<:>w 



