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herbage upon the ground through the day ; at dusk it flies 

 and comes readily to sugar. It is principally confined to 

 woods, though in the north, where it is abundant, it seems to 

 occur equally upon heaths. Apparently found throughout 

 England in woods, though seldom commonly in the South, in 

 the North more plentifully, and Mr. Porritt records it as most 

 abundant in South Yorkshire, also found in North Wales to 

 Barmouth, and in South Wales to Pembroke. In Scotland 

 more frequent and generally distributed, and in Perthshire, 

 Aberdeenshire, Moray, Eoss-shire and Sutherland most 

 abundant, extending also to the Hebrides, Orkneys, and 

 Shetland Isles. Widely distributed in Ireland but less 

 common ; most so in the North, but in many districts 

 scarce. 



Abroad it is common throughout the temperate portions 

 of Northern Europe, Central Europe, Northern Italy, 

 Livonia, Turkey, Southern Russia and Siberia. 



Genus 9. CRYMODES. 



Antenna3 ciliated ; eyes naked ; eyelashes short, thick 

 and rather erect at the back ; thorax fully crested ; abdomen 

 crested with small tufts on the third to seventh segments ; 

 very hairy, and with large anal tuft ; fore wings thick ; cross- 

 bar of hind wings angulated, vein 5 parallel with vein 6. 



We have but one species. 



1. C. exulis, Bui-).; assimilis, IMd. — Expanse If to 

 If inch. Thorax coarsely scaled. Fore wings black-brown 

 with three yellow or reddish transverse lines ; nervures dashed 

 with white and black. Hind wings dark smoky-brown. 



Antennae of the male threadlike, finely ciliated, light 

 brown ; eyes naked ; eyelashes at the back strong, half 

 erect ; palpi broadly tufted, black-brown at the sides, paler 

 brown in front ; head and front of thorax grey-brown with a 

 faint tinge of yellow, shoulder-lappets blackish-brown dusted 



