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known to occur in Ireland at all ; such recorded captures as I 

 have had opportunities of investigating have proved erroneous ; 

 and Mr. Kane, while stating that it occurs in many places, 

 only refers to it as a variety of A. tritici. Abroad it is found 

 throughout Central Europe, and in Southern Russia, Siberia, 

 and Armenia. 



[A. subgothica, Haw. — This species is very much like 

 one of the varieties of A. tritici, already adverted to. Its 

 antennae are slightly pectinated in the male, thorax squared 

 in front, but more narrowed behind, and the abdomen of the 

 male rather slender ; collar edged with black-brown ; fore 

 wings, as in the variety mentioned, except that they are 

 decidedly broader behind, pale umbreous with the markings 

 deep umbreous ; a stripe of the pale ground colour along the 

 subcostal nervure, and another branching from it along the 

 median, the latter continued obliquely toward the anal angle ; 

 transverse lines hardly indicated ; orbicular stigma triangular 

 and intimately joined to the subcostal pale stripe, on each 

 side of it, and also joined below it, is a deep black spot, the two 

 forming a sort of hook ; reniform stigma light brown ; 

 claviform long, blackish, and extended back in a broken 

 stripe to the base : spaces beyond the reniform stigma and 

 along the hind margin each clouded with deep umbreous, 

 divided by the paler nervures. Hind wings whitish, with a 

 cloudy brownish submarginal band. 



Described as British by Haworth, who stated that it was 

 very rare in England, but that he had seen three specimens 

 in cabinets. Stephens figured it very accurately from a 

 specimen obtained by the late Mr. Raddou, near Barnstaple, 

 Devon. He also recorded it from near London and from 

 Norfolk. Wood's figure appears to be from the same speci- 

 men ; that of Noel Humphreys looks more doubtful, since its 

 fore wings are narrower, but he states that it is a copy of 

 Stephens's figure. It looks more like the variety of A. tritici. 

 More recent writers on British species have ignored it, 



