90 LEFIDOPTERA. 



said to be especially attached to sallow bushes of no great 

 size on hill sides, on railway embankments, and in the 

 fens, and is not so frequently found in thickly wooded 

 districts. 



Found throughout the southern counties to Norfolk, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Herefordshire, though never 

 very commonly ; also, more rarely, in Lincolnshire, Derby- 

 shire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and even 

 in Salop, where a single specimen has been obtained by Mr. 

 Woodforde. Rather more frequent in the mosses and marshy 

 districts of Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire ; and scarce 

 in Cumberland. In Scotland it is found, rarely, in the Edin- 

 burgh district, in Roxburghshire, and Clydesdale ; more 

 frequently in Perthshire, and onward through the northern 

 districts to Moray and West Ross, becoming rather common 

 in Strathspey. Also widely distributed in Ireland, and 

 recorded from Westmeath, Cavan, Mayo, Donegal and 

 Londonderry. 



Abroad it is found throughout Northern Europe to Lapland, 

 Central Europe, and the shores of the Adriatic, also in 

 Northern Russia. 



3. C. bifida, jyti^. — Expanse If inch. Fore wings broader 

 than in the preceding species ; markings similar, except that 

 the outer edge of the dark transverse band is regularly 

 hollowed, not indented. 



Antennte of the male rather short, regularly and strongly 

 pectinated, the rows of teeth curving towards each other till 

 they meet ; black, shaft white. Head strongly tufted with 

 soft white scales ; collar broad, white ; behind it a black bar 

 crosses the broad thorax and is followed by alternate orange 

 and black bars, the latter most distinct and the third curving 

 back and embracing two white spots ; sides of the thorax also 

 white ; abdomen stout, blackish, thinly covered with fluffy- 

 white scales ; anal tuft rather long, flat, and squared, white ; 

 short tufts of white scales along the sides and base. Fore 



