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almost every year. In 1871 there was either a considerable 

 immigration or an exceptional opportunity for larvse from 

 the eggs of the usual migrants to feed up, since forty or fifty 

 specimens were taken in different places throughout the 

 country. About a dozen are recorded in 1871', and a score each 

 in 1875 and 1876 ; also several in 1892. The localities are so 

 numerous as to defy record. The great majority of specimens 

 have been found along the south coast, at Dover, Folkestone, 

 Hastings, Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne, Ventnor, Christ- 

 church, Bournemouth, Lulworth, Swanage, Torquay, Dart- 

 mouth, Plymouth, and elsewhere at the seaside, even down to 

 East Looe, in Cornwall. More rarely inland in all these coast 

 counties ; still more rarely, apparently, or singly, in all the 

 counties of the southern half of England. There are records 

 in Herefordshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and 

 Yorkshire ; and one, quite recently in the present season, in 

 Staffordshire, where the Rev. T. W. Daltry, to his great 

 astonishment, disturbed the moth in a meadow. In South 

 Wales it has been taken at Neath and in Monmouthshire ; 

 once in the extreme South of Scotland ; and once at Ardmore, 

 in the county Waterford, Ireland. 



Abroad its range is most extraordinary ; Central and 

 Southern Europe, North Africa, Ashanti, South Africa 

 plentifully — perhaps all over Africa — Asia Minor, Armenia, 

 Northern and Southern India, Ceylon, the Philippines, Keel- 

 ing Island in the Indian Ocean ; New Guinea, New South 

 Wales, Queensland, South Australia. No closely allied 

 species is known in Europe, but several, and some of them 

 very striking in appearance, are found in Northern India, 

 Java, Sumatra, Mauritius, and North and South America. 



Genus 3. EXJCHELIA. 



Antennae threadlike, but each having a pair of delicate 

 bristles. Fore wings narrow at the base, becoming rapidly 



