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to believe that in a subsequent favourable year no less than 

 sixty were secured. Last year (1895) Messrs. J. J. F. X. 

 King, P. M. Bright, and W. Reid, working together took, 

 with excessive labour, three dozen specimens. 



So far as I know entirely confined, in these Islands, to 

 Perthshire, Inverness-shire, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Arran 

 and other mountain districts, and the Shetland Isles. 



Abroad it is abundant in Iceland and is found in Green- 

 land and Labrador ; probably also, under other names, in 

 Lapland and Norway ; and again, with different designations, 

 on the Alps and Pyrenees. 



Genus 10. CHAR-aEAS. 



Antennce pectinated, eyes hairy, without lashes; thorax 

 fluffy, with shoulder lappets raised and fascicles long ; 

 abdomen hairy, and with two or three slight crests ; fore 

 wings of thick texture, narrow and blunt; hind wings 

 small, vein 5 extremely weak. 



We have but one species. 



1. C. graminis, X. — Expanse of male 1 to 1^ inch, of 

 female 1\ to 1| inch. Fore wings dark olive-brown or 

 reddish-brown, without transverse lines ; nervures and stig- 

 mata sharply whitish, the portion along the discal cell closely 

 resembling the antler of a stag; hind wings dark brown, 

 pale at the base. 



Antennas of the male neatly pectinated with solid, slender, 

 ciliated teeth to the tip, the rows standing well apart on 

 nearly opposite sides of the shaft, colour light brown ; eyes 

 hairy; palpi broadly and rather loosely tufted, the apical 

 joint very slender and distinct ; pale greyish brown ; head 

 similar; thorax roughly clad with long raised scales, pale 

 olive-brown ; shoulder lappets long ; the scales toward the 

 back also long, often lying loosely, but sometimes drawn 

 together into a slight tuft or false crest at the back ; fascicles 



