i86 LEPIDOPTERA. 



parts of Northern Europe, as well as in Spain, Southern 

 France, Italy, and Dalmatia. 



2. N. strigula, Scliiff. — Ex]3anse, | inch. Fore wings 

 ovate, greyish white, with numerous slender wavy black 

 lines ; hind wings grey. 



Antennas rather slender ; in the male with short, distinct, 

 ciliated pectinations ; in the female simple ; brown, with a 

 white basal tuft ; head white, with the projecting palpi grey ; 

 thorax grey ; abdomen brownish, barred with white. Fore 

 wings broadly ovate, with strongly rounded costa and apex, 

 but the other margins less rounded ; greyish white. At the 

 base of the costa is an elongated dull grey blotch, terminating 

 in a tuft of raised grey and white scales ; first line black, 

 curved, indented, and enclosing a faint row of dark grey 

 spots. Beyond the middle of the costa is an irregular 

 blackish blotch or group of blackish streaks, from which 

 arises the second line, curved greatly outwards, and then 

 crossing the wing, very much indented, and having each 

 indentation pointed into a black streak. Between the two 

 lines is another elongated dark grey spot on the costa, and 

 below it two more tufts of raised scales in a line with the 

 first, and of a whitish colour, below which the central space 

 is clouded with faintly grey lines and dashes. Hind-marginal 

 space clouded with grey, intersected by a subterminal line, 

 which is irregular, indented, and edged within with connected 

 black streaks and smoky clouds, as also is the hind margin ; 

 cilia whitish, barred with dark grey, liind wings rounded, 

 pale grey, rather darker along the hind margin ; cilia paler. 

 Under side of fore wings pale grey, streaked with darker ; of 

 hind wings whitish, dusted with grey, and having the apex 

 grey ; cilia whitish. Not very variable ; but Mr, F. J. 

 Hanbury has a specimen, taken in Essex, in which the space 

 between the first and second lines is devoid of markings, and 

 forms a pale central band. 



On the \sm.)i in July. 



