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I know of no record of its capture in England or Wales. 

 Abroad, however, it, in various shades of colour, is very 

 widely distributed through the Continent of Europe, including 

 Southern Europe, where it even extends to Syracuse and 

 Turkey, becoming of a very pale colour. It is also found in 

 Asia Minor, Armenia and Siberia, The form of the species 

 found in Scotland also occurs in the Alps, and is there called 

 var. montivaga. 



11. A. rumicis, L. — Expanse, li to If inch. Fore wings 

 grey, much mottled, streaked, and dotted with black ; a clear 

 white double spot close to the dorsal margin before the anal 

 angle ; hind wings pale grey-brown. 



Antennee of the male rather stout, simple, brown, with the 

 back of the shaft blackish ; palpi dark grey, the final joint 

 surrounded by tufts of long scales ; head grey mixed with 

 blackish ; thorax rough with raised scales ; collar nearly erect, 

 greyish-white tipped with black ; shoulder lappets uplifted, 

 whitisli, edged with grey and black, rest of the thorax dark 

 grey mixed with white and having at the back a small double 

 crest the tufts of which are tipped with black ; abdomen 

 yellowish-grey, with abundant long yellowish hair-scales 

 covering the basal segments, of which the first also bears a 

 broad, dorsal, black and white crest, partially concealed by 

 the long scales and easily shaken off; lateral and anal tufts 

 mixed with dark-grey or blackish scales. Fore wings 

 moderately broad ; costa very slightly curved; apex blunt, 

 almost rounded ; hind margin curved and but little oblique ; 

 dorsal margin straight to near the base, where is a tuft of 

 dark yellow scales ; colour dark grey marbled with black ; 

 from the base above the yellowish tuft arises a short black 

 streak broken and much obscured ; close above it are, very 

 commonly, a white or greyish-white patch and some small 

 black lines toward the costa ; first line black, duplicated, 

 broken into separate curves, much obscured by black 

 marbling; second line also obscured, deep black, consisting 



