26o LEPIDOPTERA. 



adjoining counties, but hardly to be found there now. Appa- 

 rently scarce or absent in the Midland Counties except 

 Stafford and Derbyshire. More frequent on the heaths and 

 moorlands of Cheshire and Lancashire, and, very locally, in 

 Yorkshire. In Scotland in many localities — Roxburghshire, 

 Troon, Cloben, Broxy, Methven, Banchory, Inverurie, Money- 

 musk, KinnouU ; very scarce and local in Aberdeenshire. In 

 Ireland widely distributed in the South and West — Bantry 

 Bay, Killarney, and elsewhere in Kerry, Galway, Sligo, 

 Donegal, and even in the North East near Belfast. Abroad it 

 is common nearly all over Europe, Siberia, Tartary and Asia 

 Minor. 



It may be well to point out here that the kidney-shaped 

 spot in the fore wings of the male of E. russula is formed 

 exactly as the spot well known as the reniform stigma in the 

 fore wings of multitudes of species of Noctuina and Pi/ralides, 

 and occupies precisely the same position in the fore wings ; 

 while the central spot in the hind wings of this species 

 corresponds in position with the lunule seen in the hind 

 wings of very many Noctuina. 



Genus 6. NEMEOPHILA. 



Antennae short, pectinated in the male with strong, solid, 

 ciliated teeth ; serrated in the female ; thorax not very stout. 

 Fore wings moderately broad ; hind wings rounded, rather 

 small ; abdomen short, tapering in the male, stout in the 

 female. 



1. N. plantaginis, L. — Expanse 1^ inch. Fore wings 

 black, with irregular branched creamy stripes ; hind wings 

 orange yellow, with black stripes and spots. 



Antennae of the male shortly but densely pectinated, 

 blackish ; head black ; collar orange, divided by a large 

 circular black spot on the back ; thorax black, with longi- 

 tudinal yellowish-white stripes edging the shoulder lappets, 



