NOTODONTID^. '39 



recorded it at Ardentinny in Clydesdale, and Dr. F. Buchanan 

 White in Argyleshire, Moray, and the Tay district. 



Abroad it is widely distributed over the greater part of 

 Central Europe, and in Sweden, Livonia, and Esthonia, but is 

 always rather scarce. 



2. L. Camelina, Z.— Expanse 1^ to If inch. Fore 

 wings chestnut-brown with a large dark brown projecting 

 tuft on the dorsal margin. Thorax crested, with a cocks'- 

 comb-like tuft. 



Antennee of the male very shortly pectinated, with square 

 flat teeth fringed at the tips with fine bristles; reddish 

 brown. Head tufted, especially so at the base of the antennae, 

 red-brown ; collar similar, upright ; thorax crested with a 

 very high tuft of upstanding scales forming quite a remark- 

 able cock's-comb, red-brown or chestnut-brown in front, and 

 tipped and lined with dark red-brown, pale drab, or 

 yellowish-brown behind ; shoulder lappets lifted, red-brown 

 tipped with darker; abdomen moderately stout and 

 cylindrical, pale drab or very pale brown, with a dense, stiff, 

 squared and depressed, red-brown anal tuft. Fore wings 

 moderately broad ; costa slightly arched at the base, thence 

 nearly straight to the apex, which is sharply but squarely 

 augulated ; hind margin regularly scalloped, perpendicular 

 below the apex, then very full and rounded ; dorsal margin 

 curved and having in its centre a large, triangular, pro- 

 jecting, dark brown tuft of scales. Chestnut-brown with paler 

 transverse shades; first line slender, indistinct, zig-zagged 

 between all the nervures, dark red-brown ; second line still 

 less distinct, very oblique, excessively zig-zagged where 

 visible, but often appearing only as a series of dark red- 

 brown dashes on nervures, with a paler parallel stripe, but 

 sometimes with a duplicate dark line, and often clouded 

 with darker, forming an oblique stripe; nervures faintly 

 indicated by dark dashes or dots ; the prominent tuft has on 

 each side a black streak ; cilia red-brown, sharply scalloped, 



