2i6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



species, but also common iu open woods, and in lanes, 

 meadoAvs, and cultivated land. Still common in gardens 

 in the suburbs of London, from which so many other species 

 have vanished, and moderately plentiful throughout most of 

 the Southern, South-eastern, alid Eastern Counties, and the 

 southern portion of the Midlands ; but apparently scarcer or 

 more local in the South-west, since it is recorded as scarce in 

 Dorset and South Devon, though common in North Devon ; 

 also scarce in Cornwall, very local in Somerset, and hardly 

 noticed in Gloucestershire. Not common in the North Mid- 

 lands, though occurring in every county, nor iu Lincolnshire, 

 Worcestershire, and Herefordshire ; more so in Lancashire and 

 Cheshire, and widely distributed in Yorkshire ; also found 

 in Cumberland, where it is said to frequent the hills and 

 not to occur in the valleys, nor in gardens. Probably widely 

 spread in Wales, since I have found it in Pembrokeshire, 

 but not iDlentifully. In Scotland it is recorded, though with 

 doubt, by Dr. F. B. White, in the districts of the Tweed, 

 Solway, and Clyde. In Ireland very scarce, but recorded 

 from Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Galway, and Mayo ; 

 to the north of this extremeh' rare, but two specimens seem 

 to have been cajitured at Rostrevor in the county Down, 

 one at Sligo, and one at Enniskillen. Abroad it has a rather 

 more southern range through Central Europe, South Sweden, 

 Northern Italy, Dalmatia, Livonia, Northern Turkey, Southern 

 Russia, and some other portions of Asia, certainl}- occurring 

 in Japan. 



Genus IS. HECATERA. 



Antenna of the male ciliated, eyes hairy, eyelashes minute, 

 thorax crested at the back, abdomen with one or two rather 

 prostrate crests, and not pointed in the female ; fore wings 

 short and blunt. 



Larv.e smooth, feeding exposed on flowers of Comiyosita:. 



