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and rare in the jNIidlands. except Nottinghamshire ; certainly 

 not common in the Western counties (except occasionally 

 and locally in Devon), yet recorded from Somerset, Gloucester- 

 shire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Cheshire, and Lanca- 

 shire — in the last two counties more especially on the coast 

 — Westmoreland, and Cumberland ; and in Yorkshire in 

 several districts. In Wales it has been found pretty 

 commonly near Swansea and Neath, also in Carmarthen- 

 shire, and, rarel3^ in Pembrokeshire ; but I find no record in 

 North Wales. \ ery local in Scotland but found in the 

 extreme South, in Perthshire, and in the North- West. In 

 Ireland scarce and almost confined to the coast ; Wicklow. 

 Dublin, Cork, Carlow, (Talway, and Sligo. Not a northern 

 species abi'oad, ])eing' found in Central l^^urope, North Italy, 

 Southern and Eastern IJussia, Dalmatia. and Livonia. 



Genus 12. XYLOMIGES. 



Antenna^ tufted ; eyes hairy, with indistinct lashes at the 

 back ; thorax rather fiat and but faintly crested ; abdomen 

 with one dorsal tuft or crest ; fore wings long and narrow, 

 hind wings very short. 



We have but one species. 



\. X. conspicillaris, L. — Expanse li to 1| inch. Fore 

 wings very narrow, faintly crenulated behind ; costal region 

 usually broadly black-brown ; dorsal pale grey or yellowisli- 

 grey ; hind wings white with dark nervures ; thorax grey 

 with the crested portion black. 



Antennre of the male brown, ciliated in minute tufts which 

 give it a faintly pectinated appearance ; palpi small, but 

 densely tufted, pale purple-brown ; eyes hairy ; eyelashes 

 prostrate, black ; thorax pale grey with a purplish flush ; 

 collar rather peaked, crossed in front by a slender pui^jle- 

 brown line, edges of the shoulder lappets dotted with dark 

 brown ; the crests on both top and back very fiat and obscure, 



