28o LEPIDOPTERA. 



not very scarce in the Isle of Man. Probably in most parts 

 of Wales, since it is recorded from Colwyn Bay in the extreme 

 north ; from Nea,th, Glamorganshire ; in some numbers at 

 Laugharne, Carmarthenshire ; and even rarely at Pem- 

 broke. In Scotland widely distributed : found in Perth- 

 shire and the Clyde valley ; in Arran. Bute, and elsewhere 

 in the western district ; and abundantly in some years in 

 Aberdeenshire, Moray and Inverness. In Ireland very rare — 

 usually on the coast — and recorded only in the neighbour- 

 hood of Dublin, in Kerry, Gralway, Donegal, and Antrim. 

 Abroad its range includes France, Central and Southern 

 Germany, Switzerland and the greater part of the South of 

 Europe. 



3. A. Australis, Bclv. — Expanse, If to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings pale grey or grey-brown ; orbicular stigma flattened ; 

 transverse lines hardly perceptible ; at the base and along 

 the hind margin are short black horizontal lines ; hind wings 

 white in the male, pale brown in the female. 



Antennas of the male thickly pectinated with short solid 

 ciliated teeth to near the apex, brown ; palpi very short, 

 narrowly tufted, smoky brown, apical joint minute, white ; 

 head white, barred across the face with light brown and 

 clouded with the same above, between the antenna are two 

 raised brown tufts edged with black ; collar pale brown with 

 a slender central black bar ; shoulder lappets uplifted, white, 

 edged on each side with smoky black ; remainder of thorax 

 whitish-brown with a veiy small top crest; back crest more 

 defined, smoky black tipped with white ; fascicles dull white ; 

 abdomen pale brown; basal segments abundantly covered with 

 long white scales, partly concealed by which are one or two 

 small black-tipped dorsal crests; lateral tufts small, anal tuft 

 broad and spreading, whitish brown. Fore wings narrow, costa 

 nearly straight till it approaches the apex, which is decidedly 

 rounded ; hind margin short, oblique, curved ; dorsal margin 

 straight, ciliated with oblique black-brown scales; colour pale 



