i3o LEPTDOPTERA. 



specimen, the capture of which near Exeter, Devon, in 1880, 

 ajDpears to have been satisfactorily proved ; and this I think 

 completes the record of captures in the United Kingdom. 

 Apparently no locality exists here in which its occurrence can 

 be confidently reckoned upon. 



Not a very common species abroad, but found in France, 

 Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Livonia, Finland, and Russia. 

 Mr. W. F. Kirby records the occurrence in the last-named 

 country of specimens devoid both of the black and the orange 

 martiugs, consequently pure white. 



Genus 4. DRYMONIA. 



Antennfe of the male pectinated throughout, the teeth 

 shorter toward the tip, but not broadened ; fore wings rather 

 narrow with blunt apex, and having, on the dorsal margin, a 

 very small prominent tuft. 



LARVyE cylindrical, smooth, without prominences. 



PupyE in cocoons in the earth. 



1. D. chaonia, Hvh. — Expanse, H inch. Fore wings 

 rather narrow, purple-grey, with the central space, and a 

 stripe on each side of it, white ; a black lunule ; hind wings 

 greyish -white. 



AntennfB of the male strongly pectinated, bright light 

 brown ; head and collar shining white ; thorax stout, covered 

 with long raised scales, purple-brown, more or less mixed 

 with silvery- white ; abdomen moderately stout ; light brown 

 with a short dense anal tuft, and slender, paler tufts down 

 the sides. Fore wings rather narrow, with the costa straight 

 to near the apex, thence very slightly rounded ; apex bluntly 

 angulated, hind margin rounded, not very oblique ; dorsal 

 margin but slightly curved and with an extremely small 

 blackish prominent tuft. Colour paler or darker purplish- 

 grey ; base whitish barred with two black crescents, forming 



