276 LEPIDOPTERA. 



has been taken more or less rarely or locally in Kent, Sussex, 

 Surrey, North and South Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Berks, 

 Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Gloucester- 

 shire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, Yorkshire, and 

 Northumberland — the dark varieties beginning to show 

 themselves in these northern counties. In Wales it has 

 been found in Carmarthenshire, and apparently also in North 

 Wales. In Scotland it has a wide distribution — Roxburgh, 

 Jedburgh, Berwick, Moray ; Strathglass, Loch Laggan, In- 

 verness ; Aberdeenshire, 'Argyleshire, and the Hebrides and 

 Orkneys. In Ireland almost confined to the coast — ■ 

 Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Londonderry; most frequent in the 

 north-west. Abroad it seems to be tolerably well distributed 

 in France, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Northern Italy, 

 Spain, and Dalmatia. 



2. A. nigra. Haw. — Expanse 1| to If inch. Fore wings 

 brown-black or deep black ; at the outer edge of the reniform 

 stigma is an upright yellow broken streak ; hind wings in 

 the male white, in the female smoky-black. 



Antennae of the male pectinated to the tip with short, 

 solid, finely ciliated teeth, those toward the apex more 

 oblique and slender, black-brown ; palpi and head smoky 

 black ; thorax black ; collar rather erect and having across 

 the middle of the front a slender deeper black bar ; 

 shoulder lappets rather uplifted ; top and back crests small 

 and obscure but tipped vrith deeper black ; fascicles white ; 

 abdomen covered on the basal segments with long white 

 hair-scales ; thence dark smoky-brown or smoky-black ; 

 lateral and anal tufts spreading and rather produced into 

 points. Fore wings elongated, somewhat pointed ; costa 

 long and nearly straight ; apex very bluntly rounded ; hind 

 margin oblique and gently curved, also very slightly crenu- 

 lated ; dorsal margin straight ; colour dull black, with a 

 faint dusting of reddish-brown before and beyond the 

 middle — sometimes hardly noticeable ; at the base of the 



