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half of Ireland, but the records are few; HovYtli, near 

 Dublin, and in plenty at Kossleigh, Kerry. Abroad it 

 appears to have only a restricted range, but is found in 

 Southern and Western France, Portugal and Sicily. 



Genus 23. DASYPOLIA. 



Antenna? hairy, palpi drooping, eyes naked, with long 

 lashes in front and back ; thorax smooth ; abdomen hairy, 

 without crests ; wings very densely scaled ; vein 5 of hind 

 wings well marked, arising from the middle of the cross-bar. 



We have but one species. 



1, D. templi, :Z'/»r;/Z^.— Expanse, 1^ to 2 inches. Of a 

 hairy or downy appearance ; autennje bristly ; fore wings 

 dull yellowish-brown, marbled, and sometimes banded, with 

 dull pale yellow ; hind wings rather paler. 



AntenniB of the male not pectinated, but feathered with 

 long slender bristles in pairs on each joint, so as to represent 

 pectinations, and accompanied by abundance of shorter 

 bristles of various lengths, light brown ; palpi small, droop- 

 ing, narrowly tufted, apical joint hardly visible, dull brown; 

 head densely tufted with dark brown scales ; thorax broad 

 and robust, thickly covered with long scales which lie 

 smoothly back and are only just gathered to a small point 

 at the back, pale olive-brown, dusted with darker ; fascicles 

 spreading, pale brown ; abdomen very fluff}", with abundance 

 of long hair-scales, pale olive-brown or yellowish-brown, 

 without crests ; lateral tufts distinct and spreading ; anal 

 tuft small. Fore wings somewhat ovate, very thick in tex- 

 ture, with coarse, dense scales ; costa curved ; apex and hind 

 margin rather fully rounded, the latter crenulated toward the 

 anal angle ; dorsal margin straight to near the base, where 

 it is rather fully curved in ; colour dull yellowish-brown or 

 ochreous-brown, more or less clouded with darker ; all the 

 markings ordinarily' very obscure ; when visible the basal line 



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