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no further north, nor have I any record of it in Wales. 

 Kare in Ireland, but recorded from Galway and Cork. 



Abroad it is found nearly all over Europe, except the 

 coldest regions, also in Asia Minor, Northern India, and 

 Cashmir. 



3. A. megacephala, Schiff. — Expanse H to If inch. 

 Fore wings dark grey, mottled and spotted with blackish ; 

 a large pale blotch beyond the stigmata ; hind wings white 

 with black nervures. 



Antennae of the male rather slender, simple, naked, grey ; 

 head dark-grey ; thorax moderately stout, grey, dusted with 

 black ; shoulder lappets raised, and, with a small crest at the 

 back of the thorax, tipped with black ; abdomen pale grey, 

 rather smooth, with two or three indistinct and often 

 prostrate darker dorsal tufts, a strong lateral ridge of tufts, 

 and a broad anal tuft dotted with black. Fore wings rather 

 broad, not so triangular as in the last two species ; costa 

 gently curved, apex very bluntly angulated, almost rounded ; 

 hind margin decidedly rounded, long, and oblique ; dorsal 

 margin rather straight. Grey, softly mottled all over with 

 dark grey and blackish, and with, when fresh, a delicate 

 faint pinkish or lilac flush ; first line indicated by a double 

 transverse row of blackish spots ; second line more complete, 

 deep black, indented throughout and expanded near the anal 

 angle into a considerable cloudy black spot ; orbicular stigma 

 whitish-grey, ringed with black, and tolerably conspicuous; 

 reniform stigma very large and ill-defined, forming part of a 

 large ovate pale blotch ; along the costa are several black 

 spots ; cilia grey, broadly spotted with black. Hind wings 

 short, rounded, shining white, with the nervures grey, more 

 blackish toward the hind margin, along which is a dusting of 

 grey; cilia whitish, dashed with grey. Female similar, but 

 with the hind wings more clouded with grey, especially 

 toward the dorsal and hind margins. 



Underside shining whitish with a grey cloud along the 



