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but they were certainly in very fine condition, especially one female, 

 which is so large and so strongly marked that I have, until just 

 lately, considered it a distinct species. Comparison with a not 

 very good continental type of P. nemoralis led to the error of 

 supposing it to be an example of that species, as latel}^ figured 

 (Entom xiv. 304). When I state that the specimen measures 

 rather over 14 lines in expanse, and that the largest of m}' 

 other specimens — including several from Kent — does not exceed 

 11 lines, my former conclusion will not perhaps appear surprising 



Amblyptilia, Hiib. 

 Tceniadactylus, Mihi. 



Imago. — Expanse, Oi-lO lines. Fore wing, ground colour pale 

 oehreous-brown. dusted with darlver brown scales ; a narrow dark chocolate 

 line edges the costa, and a darlv cliocolale-brown stripe runs along the 

 inner margin. This latter is interrupted or broken by three blotches, 

 rather paler than the ground colour : one at the base, one in the middle, 

 and one between this and the angle of inner digit. There are three 

 conspicuous dark chocolate-brown marks : the first, somewhat triangular in 

 shape, has its base on the costa just beyond the middle, and its apex in 

 close proximity to the digital juncture; the inner half of this triangle is 

 much darker than the costal half, and its posterior edge is distinctly edged 

 with whitish, especially so on the cost i. Beyond this the second and third 

 marks represent a broadish fascia, interrupted by the fissure ; its posterior 

 edge is sharply defined by a whitish line running parallel with the hind 

 margin. Fringes black, streaked along the inner margins with white. Tip 

 of outer digit acutely pointed. Hind wings dark grey-brown, with only 

 slightly paler fringes, except third feather, which has an elongate patch of 

 black scales in the middle, and between this and the base of feather, whitish 

 cilia. Head and thorax colour of fore wings. Abdominal juncture whitish. 



Three fine examples of this "plume" occurred to me in a 

 locality close to the sea in North Devon, where I have reason 

 to believe that this insect has been taken before on two or 

 three occasions, and exists in cabinets at the present time 

 under the name of Zetterstedtii. This is the case in the 

 Doubleday collection at the Bethnal Green Museum. It may 

 be at once separated from the last-named species by its 

 narrow wings, the structural character of which would seem 

 to indicate its belonging to the subgenus Amblyptilia. The 

 ground colour and markings certainly favour Zetterstedtii, but 



