1 88 LEPIDOPTERA. 



not beeu contirmed. Abroad it has a wide range througli 

 Central Europe, Sweden, Italy, Livonia, Dalmatia, Northern 

 Turkey, and parts of Asia Minor. 



3. N.confusalis, 7fu7?.; cristulalis, Stainton. — Expanse, 

 I inch. Fore wings clear white, with slender, angulated cross 

 lines, and raised black and white tufts between them ; hind 

 wings greyish-white. 



Antenna?, in the male, furnished with pairs of tufts of 

 bristles, of which the central is the largest ; in the female 

 simple ; in both whitish above, brownish beneath, and much 

 thickened at the base with white scales ; head, palpi and 

 thorax white, with a brownish bar across the collar ; abdomen 

 brownish, with whitish rings. Fore wings narrowly ovate, with 

 all the margins and the apex rather rounded ; white, slightly 

 dusted with grey, with a tuft of conspicuous raised white 

 scales near the base ; first line arising in a blackish spot on 

 the costa, black, curved, and outwardly uniting with a larger 

 black spot and tuft of raised whitish scales, in the discal cell ; 

 second transverse line also arising from a black costal spot, 

 which extends itself so as to touch a third tuft of raised scales, 

 — dark grey and white — thence bent outward, and then broadly 

 back, making an inward curve before reaching the dorsal 

 margin, being also dotted with black on every nervure, and 

 edged on its inner side, through a part of its extent, with a 

 series of black and grey dashes. Outside this second line the 

 space is much clouded with grey, in which is a whitish trans- 

 verse line, preceded and followed by series of black dashes on 

 the nervures, and grey arches between them ; cilia pale grey, 

 dotted and dashed with dark grey. Hind wings rounded, 

 white, with greyish nervures and a dark grey streak across 

 the end of the discal cell ; cilia white, intersected with pale 

 grey. 



Under side of fore wings pale grey, with wliitish clouds on 

 the costa, and the cilia whitish ; of hind wings whitish, dusted 

 with grey, and with two grey lines at the base of the whitish 



