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occasionally on the trunks oi' trees, and far more frequently 

 among the long wood-grasses close to the ground. At dusk 

 it flies freely to flowers of bramble, Angelica, and other 

 plants, and comes willingly to sugar. Its home in this 

 country is in South Yorkshire, in the large woods round 

 Sheffield and Rotherham ; there it is sometimes abundant, 

 but it has a rather wide range with us. A single specimen 

 was taken a good many years ago at Hythe, Kent, by 

 Mr. McLachlan, another was found at Saltwood in the same 

 county, and there is a record in Cornwall ; in Devon it has 

 been taken in the woods of Dartmoor ; also found rarely in 

 Dorset. Upwards of twenty years ago it was taken in some 

 plenty, both in the imago and larva states, in the woods of 

 Hampstead and Highgate, lying just north of London, and 

 it has continued to exist there, in spite of collectors, up to a 

 very recent period. It may now increase again, since the 

 woods — so far as they still exist — are not available for 

 collecting in. As already stated, Professor Meldola used 

 to take this species in Surrey; and it still occurs in the 

 middle and west of the county ; and has once been taken 

 at Lewisham, Kent, in the south-east suburbs of London, 

 by Mr. Fenn. It is also met with very locally in Berks, 

 Oxfordshire, Somerset, Herefordshire, Buckinghamshire, 

 Suffolk, Norfolk ; and more frequently in Sherwood Forest, 

 Notts ; also in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cumberland, 

 and very rarely in Lancashire. I find no record of its 

 capture in Scotland, Ireland or Wales. Abroad its range 

 is more southern — Central Europe, North Italy, South 

 Sweden, and apparently some portions of the mountain 

 regions of Central Asia. 



Genus 34. APAMEA. 



Antennse of the male ciliated ; eyes naked, provided with 

 short lashes at the back ; thorax with the top crest small, 

 sometimes hardly noticeable, back crest small and short ; 



