C YMA TOPHORID.^. 2 1 1 



mosses. Further north in England I find no record. In 

 Scotland it is common, and very dark in Perthshire ; very- 

 much scarcer in the Eastern districts, and only recently 

 noticed, by Mr. Wm. Evans of Edinburgh, at Wemyss and else- 

 where in Fife ; further north it has been met with even to 

 Moray, but in the western districts only to Dunoon and 

 Renfrew. In Ireland the late Mr. E. Birchall recorded it as 

 common, but this has not been confirmed. It is, however, 

 found occasionally, by Mr. D. C. Campbell, at Londonderry, 

 and Colonel Partridge has met with it at Enniskillen; it is 

 difficult therefore to believe it absent from other suitable 

 localities. Abroad it is found throughout Northern Europe, 

 and much of Central Europe, also in Northern Italy and 

 Southern and Eastern Russia. 



3. Asphalia ridens, Fal. — Expanse 1^ to \\ inch. 



Antennse yellow ; thoi'ax stout ; fore wings narrow, blunt, 

 pale green or greenish-white, mottled with black and with a 

 broad dark central band. 



Antennae thick, almost broad, strongly ridged, naked, 

 brownish-yellow ; eyes densely set with minute hairs ; lashes 

 at the back, but obscured by erect head-scales ; head grey, 

 barred and spotted with black ; thorax blackish ; shoulder 

 lappets edged with white on the inner side ; crest distinct 

 and barred with white and black ; fascicles broad and very 

 spreading, yellowish in the middle, outwardly white; 

 abdomen light brown barred with whitish, lateral tufts white, 

 anal tuft brown. Fore wings narrow ; costa straight to 

 near the apex, where it is slightly curved ; apex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin rounded, very little oblique ; 

 dorsal margin gracefully curved. Ground colour white, 

 silvery white, gi*eenish-white, pale green, or bright green, 

 much mottled with black; basal line black, angulated, 

 sharply defined, and outside it a large black or brownish 

 cloud occupying the space near the base of the dorsal margin; 

 remaining basal space occupied with angulated black streaks 



