152 LEPIDOPTERA, 



maple. The vast majority — indeed nearly all — the specimens 

 in our collections are reared. Apparently almost wholly 

 confined to chalk districts, and in them very local ; found in 

 the greatest numbers with us in Buckinghamshire, Berks, and 

 Oxfordshire ; more rarely in Kent, Hants, Gloucestershire, 

 and South Devon ; and is said to have occurred once or twice 

 in Cambridgeshire. There is no apparent reason to believe 

 that it inhabits any portion of these islands north or west of 

 the localities named. 



Abroad it is found over the greater portion of Central 

 Europe, and in Livonia and Siberia ; indeed, probably over 

 a far wider range, since accurately typical specimens have 

 been brought from Japan. It is a strongly marked and in 

 structure rather singular species, and appears to have no 

 close allies, so far as is known, in the world. 



Genus 8. GL.UPHISIA. 



Autennge strongly pectinated in the male, very shortly so 

 in the female ; fore wings short, ovate, rather broad, hind 

 margin slightly crenulated. We have but one species. 



1. G. crenata, Esp. — Expanse Ij inch. Fore wings 

 short and broad, dark grey mixed with brown, with four 

 whitish transverse stripes ; hind wings grey, paler at the 

 base. 



Antenna} of the male short, rather broadly pectinated with 

 solid ciliated teeth ; blackish-brown. Head tufted, pale 

 grey ; thoiHX densely covered with partially erect scales, pale 

 grey, darker grey in front and at the sides ; abdomen stout, 

 short, brown, with a short dense anal tuft. Fore wings very 

 ovate ; costa regularly curved ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind 

 margin slightly crenulated, rather straight and but little 

 oblique, rounded off at the anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 decidedly rounded but not tufted. Colour dark grey, with 

 the hind marginal region whitish-grey ; near the base is an 



