336 LEPTDOPTERA. 



Clyde district, and in the east so far north as Moray. Sir 

 Thomas Moncreiff used to find it abundantly at Moncreiff 

 Hill, and very variable, specimens having the yellowish-white 

 markings being frequent. In Ireland it occurs in the 

 Dublin district, in Louth, Galway, Antrim, and more rarely 

 in Down and Derry. Abroad it is common throughout the 

 continent of Europe except the extreme north and south, 

 also in Asia Minor, Siberia, and in North America. 



12. A. tritici, L. — Expanse 1} to \\ inch. Fore wings 

 rather narrow, blunt, brown in various shades ; a whitish or 

 pale brown subcostal stripe, and below it a blackish streak 

 from the base ; upper stigmata pale, in a dark discal cell ; 

 hind wings whitish or pale grey. 



Antennae of the male pectinated for three-fourths of their 

 leno-th, with short solid sharp teeth which taper off, leaving 

 the apical portion threadlike, the whole finely ciliated, dark 

 brown. Palpi tufted, dark brown or blackish, paler in front, 

 but the third joint slender and blackish ; head tufted, pale 

 brown, barred across the front with dark brown ; collar 

 broad, brown, with two darker cross-bars ; shoulder-lappets 

 much raised, blackish-brown, paler at the edges ; rest of 

 thorax light brown, slightly crested at the back, and faintly 

 barred with whitish, tips of crests white ; fascicles long, 

 whitish ; abdomen dark brown shaded at the base with long 

 whitish scales. Fore wings rather short and narrow, of 

 fairly even width ; costa only faintly rounded ; dorsal 

 margin straight ; apex very bluntly angulated, almost 

 squared ; hind margin beneath it almost perpendicular, but 

 bent at the middle, and rounded off at the anal angle ; 

 colour umbreous, greyish -brown, or purplish-brown, clouded 

 and shaded with richer brown, or purple-brown ; on the 

 costal edge are five or six white dots, and from the base a 

 broad white, whitish, or pale brown stripe lies straight along 

 the subcostal region as far as the reniform stigma ; median 

 nervure also white to the same length, and the dorsal 



