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the Southern counties ; less so in Devon and apparently not 

 recorded from Cornwall, yet locally common in Pembroke- 

 shire, and probably in suitable places throughout South 

 Wales. Scarce in the Cambridgeshire fen district and not 

 very common in Norfolk and Suffolk, nor in Somersetshire, 

 Gloucestershire, and Leicestershire. Locally it seems to be 

 much more frequent in Warwickshire, North Staffordshire, 

 Lincolnshire, Lancashire, and Cumberland, and rather widely 

 distributed in Yorkshire. In Scotland it is only known to 

 extend a short distance into the districts of the Solway and 

 Clyde ; and in Ireland the only record is that of the late Mr. 

 E. Birchall, at Killarney, which has not been confirmed, and 

 may have been a mistake. 



Rather local abroad, but found in Southern, Central and 

 Eastern Germany, Northern and Central France, Switzerland, 

 Belgium and Hungary. 



(Since the last " part" went to press, it has been brougbt 

 to my notice that this species has hairy eyes, though the 

 hairs are singularly minute and difficult to distinguish.) 



2. A. flavicornis, L. — Expanse H to If inch. An- 

 tennas yellow ; fore wings long and pointed, slate-grey, with 

 slender black transverse lines ; hind wings pale grey. 



Antennas in the male short, thick, ridged, slightly ciliated, 

 brownish -yellow ; eyes very densely set with erect brown 

 minute hairs or bristles, and thickly encompassed by upright 

 projecting scales, mingling with which are the black lashes 

 at the back ; head very hairy, a dense dark grey-brown tuft 

 of erect scales between the antennae ; thorax stout, rather 

 squared, with the shoulders accentuated by raised tufts, 

 wholly covered with long slate-grey or yellowish-grey scales ; 

 fascicles broad, converging, whitish ; abdomen rather stout, 

 hairy -looking, blackish-grey, with small yellowish-grey lateral 

 tufts, and grey-brown anal tuft. Fore wings elongated and 

 rather narrow, with very slightly curved costa ; apex sharply 

 angulated ; hind margin oblique, first straight, then smoothly 



