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Abundant in the South of England, and especially so in 

 the Eastern Counties, delighting in dry, sandy, and chalky 

 districts, and in some parts of Norfolk, Sutfolk, and Cam- 

 bridgeshire so plentiful that a large red cloud of moths may 

 sometimes be shaken out of a bush ; scarce in the Midland 

 Counties and in many of them absent, but plentiful in 

 Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire ; in limestone districts in 

 Herefordshire and Shropshire ; and on sandy coasts in 

 Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumberland and Yorkshire ; otherwise 

 widely spread, but scarce in the Northern counties. In 

 Scotland, it is found in the Clyde and iMoray districts, and 

 in the Isle of Bute. Sir Thomas Moncrieff found it formerly 

 about Moncrieff Hill, Perthshire, but he believed it to be, 

 there, an introduced species, and it ultimately died out. 

 Common in many parts of Ireland, even as far north as 

 Londonderry, and plentiful round Dublin, where it used to 

 be one of the most abundant species on the gas -lamps in the 

 suburbs. 



Abroad it is common all over Europe, except the extreme 

 north, also in Siberia, Armenia, and various parts of Asia 

 Minor. 



No species closely allied to this appears to be known 

 from any part of the world. 



Genus 4. CALLIMORPHA. 



Antennge threadlike, but with a pair of fine bristles to 

 each joint ; fore wings long and moderately broad ; hind wings 

 rather long, somewhat ample, very gaily coloured ; thorax 

 rather narrow, but abdomen stout. 



1. C. dominula, L. — Expanse If to 2^ inches. Fore 

 wings metallic green-black with large whitish spots ; hind 

 wings crimson with black blotches. 



Antennas black, thread-like, but finely serrated, and with 

 minute distant bristles ; head deep black ; thorax blue-bkick 



