TRIFID^. 1/9 



recorded from Ayrshire and Kirkcudbright. Much more 

 common and widely distributed in Ireland : Dublin coast, 

 Wicklow, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Galway and Louth. Abroad 

 it ranges over Central Europe, the temperate portions of 

 Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Northern Turkey, Southern 

 Russia, Eastern Siberia, and the mountain regions of Central 

 Asia. Also under the name of Atlantica. Grote, in Canada, 

 through New England, the Atlantic States to Virginia ; 

 thence westward to Wisconsin. 



4. H. .peregrina, Tr. — Expanse 1| inch. Fore wings 

 whitish-brown marbled with white ; lines white, three 

 stigmata edged with black ; hind wings white with a few 

 brown dashes. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, pale brown ; palpi 

 broadly tufted, whitish-brown, apical joint very short; head 

 and thorax whitish-brown abundantly dusted with white ; 

 across the front of the collar is a slender pale brown bar, 

 along the upper edge of the shoulder lappets a line of 

 black-brown dots ; crests at the top and back tipped with 

 blackish-brown ; fascicles short, white ; abdomen whitish- 

 brown dusted with darker, and with four or five whitish 

 dorsal crests, which are oblique and tipped with dark brown; 

 lateral and anal tufts small. Fore wings rather elongated, 

 especially so toward the apex ; costa very slightly curved ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin rather oblique, straight 

 below the apex, rounded off toward the anal angle ; dorsal 

 margin very straight ; colour whitish-brown with a broad 

 whiter stripe from the base along the costal area to beyond 

 the middle ; below this, arising from the base, is a slender 

 curved short black streak ; basal line indicated by two brown 

 dots on the costa and a brown dash beneath the black streak ; 

 first line white, partially edged inside Avith black, much 

 angulated and bent in the middle, so that both extremities 

 lean toward the base ; second line curved, white, edged 

 inwardly by several dark brown crescents and streaks : 



