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tui'bed it I'tills dovvu, but it" the weather is warm speedily tlies 

 to another shelter. The Kev. H. Williams has several times 

 disturbed it from beds of Teucriuiii scoroduiiia. It Hies at 

 night, and comes readily to sugar. The first record of this 

 species here seems to have been about the year 1813, and it 

 was long considered to be a very rare species. Though now 

 known to be widely distributed, it is local and far from common. 

 In the South of England it is most frequent in the New Forest, 

 but is found also in the Isle of Wight and other parts of Hants, 

 and rarely in Sussex. Surrey, Dorset, Oxfordshire, and Glouces- 

 tershire. In the eastern counties it is especially attached to 

 the Breck-saud district about Thetford and Brandon, where it 

 is not scarce, and is found also at Yarmouth, Ipswich, and 

 Bury St. Edmunds ; in the west in Herefordshire ; and in 

 Wales in Pembrokeshire, where it is very rare. There is a 

 single record in Yorkshire, at Redcar, and a solitary specimen 

 has, this year (189G), been taken at Hesleden Dene, Durham, 

 by Mr. J. Gardner. More generally distributed in Scotland — 

 Roxburghshire, Ayrshire, Morayshire, commonly ; Inverness, 

 and elsewhere in the districts of the Solway, Clyde, Tweed, 

 Tay, and Dee ; also at Unst in Shetland. Very rare in Ireland ; 

 two specimens were taken in the County of Gal way by Mr. E. 

 Birchall in 1858, and it is said to have occurred since that 

 date at Ardrahan and Clonbrock in the same district. 



Abroad it is widely distributed in Central, Eastern, and 

 Southern Europe ; also found in Sweden, Norway, the North 

 of Spain, Corsica and Livonia ; and in Armenia and other 

 parts of Asia Minor. 



G. T. pronuba, L. — Expanse 1^- to 2| inch. Fore wings 

 long, not sc[uared, broad behind ; brown, red-brown, or 

 yellow-brown, usually marbled with darker or black, and with 

 a black costal spot before the apex ; hind wings large, yellow, 

 with a narrow black band, and devoid of a central spot. 



Antennae of the male long, simple, naked, red-brown or 

 dark brown ; palpi strongly tufted, dark purple or dark 



