34 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the New Forest, Hants ; less fi'equently in suitable places in 

 all the southern counties, though appai'ently scarce in Dorset, 

 Somerset, and Devon ; rare in the fen districts of Cambridge- 

 shire and Norfolk, but found throughout the eastern counties ; 

 also in the West in Herefordshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and 

 North Wales. In the Midlands in Warwickshire and South 

 Staffordshire, and in some seasons plentiful in Sherwood 

 Forest, Notts. In Yorkshire also common in heathy woods ; 

 and found in Cumberland. In Scotland very much more 

 generally distributed, from the East Coast to the Hebrides, 

 and from the Tweed and Solway to the Orkneys and Shetland 

 Isles. In Ireland it is usually found in districts near the 

 coast — around Dublin, commonly atHowth; Wicklow, Water- 

 ford, Galway, Monaghan, Sligo, Tyrone, Donegal, Derry; and 

 rather plentifull}' near Belfast, and in other parts of Antrim 

 and Down. Abroad its range appears to be by no means 

 wide ; it is recorded in France, Holland, Belgium, Western 

 Germany, and Bavaria. 



2. N. augur, Fah. — Expanse 1| to If inch. Fore wings 

 very broad, with an arched costa ; dull brown with a reddish 

 gloss, bordered behind with dark brown ; reniform stigma 

 large, blackish ; hind wings dark grey-brown, with darker 

 lunule. 



Antenn£e of the male simple, flattened in front, naked, 

 reddish-brown ; palpi dark brown, strongly tufted, but with 

 the apical joint slender; head and thorax reddish-umbreous ; 

 collar upraised and rather divided ; shoulder-lappets long ; 

 a small neat crest at the back easily hidden by any dis- 

 arrangement of the long loose scales ; fascicles rather short, 

 smoky-white ; abdomen smoky-brown ; lateral and anal tufts 

 spreading and conspicuous. Fore wings broad ; costa decidedly 

 arched ; apex angulated ; hind margin beneath it almost per- 

 pendicular, then rounded off from the middle to the anal 

 angle, which is rather full ; dorsal margin tolerably straight 

 to very near the base ; colour reddish-umbreous or dai'k 



