HEPIALIDA£. i6i 



England, often common in suitable places ; in the south- 

 west less common, and scarce in Devonshire ; scarce in the 

 hill districts of the Midlands ; but common in South Wales, 

 and, locally, so as far north as Yorkshire and Lancashire. 

 In Scotland it is found occasionally round Glasgow, and in 

 Ayrshire, Perthshire, Argyleshire, Aberdeenshire, Moray, and 

 West Ross. In Ireland Mr. E. Birchall recorded it as having 

 been taken in the county Wicklow by Mr. Bristowe, but of 

 this I can obtain no confirmation. Abroad it is common in 

 the temperate parts of Northern Europe, in Central Europe, 

 Dalmatia, Southern Russia, and the North-east of Asia Minor. 



4. H. velleda, ^sp. — Expanse, 1^ to 1\ inches. Fore 

 wings pale brown, much marbled with dark brown and white ; 

 hind wings brownish ; cilia all spotted. 



Antennae short, reddish, rather thick, serrated in both 

 sexes. Head and front portion of thorax reddish-brown or 

 chocolate ; hinder part of thorax yellowish-brown ; abdomen 

 thinly scaled, pale brown. Fore wings with the apex much 

 rounded, pale greyish-brown, orange-brown, or chocolate- 

 brown, marbled with darker brown, chocolate, and white. 

 A broad whitish or white stripe, margined with dark brown, 

 arises in the middle of the base, and runs parallel with the 

 dorsal margin to the middle of the wing, thence often throw- 

 ing off a broad squared blotch to the dorsal margin ; this 

 blotch is sometimes connected by a slender line with a 

 broader pale reddish-brown, or whitish-brown, stripe, which 

 proceeds from near the dorsal margin, in an undulating 

 manner, to the apex of the wing, being twice toothed and 

 then branched on the inner side, and margined on the outer 

 with dark brown. Touching it on the inner side is a white 

 spot or dot ; near the base another, which is elongated, or 

 shaped like an arrow-head, or even a straight line, and some- 

 times these two are almost connected by an intermediate 

 white spot or streak. Outside the second stripe, and parallel 

 with it, is a row of white dots near the hind margin, but these 

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