1 88 LEPIDOPTERA. 



to be 'found ail over the United Kingdom to "the- Shetland 

 Isles^— except that I have no record from the Orkneys and 

 Hebrides — and, in such places as it loves, extremely abundant ; 

 yet known to be very scarce in the hill . districts of the south 

 of Surrey, and local in some other of the Southern Counties. 

 Abroad it is common all over the Continent of Europe except 

 l&reece and the polar regions, and is found also in Asia 

 Minor. Mr. J. J. Walker has found it at Gibraltar at ivy- 

 bloom in October — doubtless as a second generation. 



7. H. genistse, Bkli. — Expanse 1^ to If inch. Fore 

 wings pale silvery-grey with a broad central purple-brown 

 band, in which are the two paler stigmata; hind margin 

 purple-brown with a large white W ; hind wings brown, 

 whiter in the middle. 



Antennas of the male simple, very minutely ciliated, dark 

 purple-brown ; palpi broadly tufted, outwardly purple-black, 

 paler in front, the ajDical joint very small ; head pale 

 purplish-brown, barred in front with purplish-black ; collar 

 dusky white tinged toward the base with brown, above with 

 purple, and sharply divided by a deep black or purple-black 

 bar ; shoulder lappets very pale purplish -brown, with a 

 black stripe edged by a white tuft, over the bases of the 

 wings ; remainder of thorax ashy-white with a large purple- 

 brown top crest, and the back crest barred with the same ; 

 fascicles dirty-white; basal portion of the abdomen covered 

 with similar long hairs, remainder hoary-brown, the dorsal 

 ridge ornamented with five oblique crests, each tipped with 

 black ; lateral and anal tufts spreading, purple-brown. Fore 

 wings rather elongated ; costa nearly straight, or very faintly 

 curved at the base and toward the apex, which is very 

 suddenly rounded ; hind margin oblique, rounded and 

 crenulated ; dorsal margin rather gracefully ciirved ; colour 

 pale silvery-grey or ashy-white faintly dusted with purple ; 

 a . large blotch of this pale ground colour at the base is 

 bounded beneath by a rather long deep black basal streak. 



