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two whitish ; low down along the sides is a broader yellowish 

 line ; the head is green with a yellowish tinge. 



The moth is out from late May to early July, sometimes later. 



This is also a marsh-loving species, and is generally 

 plentiful in the fens of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire ; 

 in the Southern counties it is either very local or, owing to its 

 small size, has escaped detection, but has been noted as occur- 

 ring in Surrey (Wisley), Kent (Deal), Hants (New Forest), 

 Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and Somersetshire ; also in York- 

 shire (Askham bog), and in Cumberland. The Welsh counties 

 in which it has been found are Pembroke, Glamorgan and 

 Carnarvon (Abersoch). It is locally common in Clydesdale, 

 and has also been reported from Kirkcudbrightshire, and Perth- 

 shire. In Ireland it abounds in the boggy parts of Kerry, 

 and is more or less frequent in several other parts of Ireland. 

 Near Castle Bellingham, co. Louth, where it is common, a 

 second brood was observed on Aug. ist, 1894. 



Its range abroad extends to Amurland and Japan. 



The Rosy Marbled {Erastria vetiustuld). 



Another local species, but a frequenter of drier locahties than 

 the last two. This delicate rosy-flushed whitish moth first 

 became known as a native of Britain by the capture of a few 

 specimens in Essex. Stephens, writing in 1830, remarks, 

 " I have hitherto seen four examples only — a pair in my own 

 cabinet ; one of the latter taken, I believe, in Epping forest by 

 the late Mr. Honey, the other by the late Mr. Bentley." No 

 other British specimens seem to have been recorded until 

 1845, when the late Mr. H. Doubleday, in July, noted several 

 of the moths disporting themselves over, or settling upon, 

 bracken in Epping Forest. For many years Loughton and 

 some other parts of the forest remained the only known English 

 haunts of the species, but in 1874 it was found commonly m 



