298 LEPIDOPTERA. 



means plentiful in Ireland, yet found in Wicklow, Kerry, 

 Louth, Down, Antrim, Derry, and Sligo. 



Abroad its distribution is wide, over Central Europe, 

 great part of Northern, Western and Southern Europe, Asia 

 Minor, Siberia, the North-West Himalayas, Nilgiris, and 

 other mountain regions in India, and at Madagascar. 



5. A. cinerea, Hul. — Expanse \\ to If inch. Antennte 

 of the male pectinated ; fore wings short, costa faintly 

 hollowed ; whitish-grey with darker transverse lines, no 

 orbicular stigma ; hind wings whitish ; female smaller, 

 antennae threadlike ; fore wings narrower, blackish-grey ; 

 hind wings dark grey. 



Antennas of the male strongly pectinated with solid, densely 

 ciliated teeth which become shortened beyond the middle, 

 tapering off so that only a short piece of the apex of the 

 antenna is simple ; deep dark brown. Palpi densely tufted, 

 the long scales from the second joint partly enclosing the 

 third, which resembles a small nipple, black-brown ; head pale 

 grey ; collar rather erect, ashy-white except the lower 

 portion behind the head which is broadly black-brown ; 

 shoulder lappets very broad, loosely raised, ashy-white edged 

 and dusted with darker; rest of thorax rough, pale grey, 

 slightly crested at the back and there tipped with dark 

 brown. Fascicles dense, shining, pale grey, abdomen toward 

 the base greyish-white with a golden gloss, browner behind, 

 lateral and anal tufts small, golden brown. Fore wings short 

 and narrow, costa faintly concave, apex bluntly angulated, 

 hind margin rather oblique and curved off below the middle ; 

 anal angle distinct ; dorsal margin almost straight ; pale 

 ashy-grey with a faint purplish gloss ; basal line indicated 

 by two curved black streaks from the costa ; first line 

 originating in a large black costal spot, slender, black, 

 nearly perpendicular, much indented so as to form a series 

 of large scallops and angles ; the second line, originating from 



