310 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



and Berkshire. It has been recorded from Buckinghamshire, 

 Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire ; and as local and scarce in the 

 Lancaster district. 



The range abroad extends to Amurland and Japan, and in 

 both countries it is represented by var. conferenda.^ Butler. 



Speckled Beauty {Ckora angtilaria). 



Stephens, who in 1831 figured this insect as Cleora vidiiaria, 

 Wien. Verz., remarks, " All the examples I have seen of this 

 beautiful species were captured in the New Forest : the first 

 about June, 1822, the remainder in 1825 and 1826 : I believe 

 in the vicinity of Lyndhurst." Barrett states that the late 

 Mr. Samuel Stevens obtained a number of specimens "by 

 sweeping the upper branches of oak trees in the New Forest 

 with a long pole." This was in 1849 ; and between that year 

 and 1872, about which time it seems to have disappeared, the 

 moth was found, by those who knew where to look for it, in 

 the Forest between Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst. Specimens 

 have also been taken, in the past, in Tilgate Forest, Sussex, by 

 the late William Tester, and by Mr. Merrifield, at Holm 

 Bank, near Henfield, in the same county. There have been 

 recent rumours of its reappearance in the New Forest, but I 

 have been unable to ascertain anything definite about this. The 

 specimen depicted in Plate 134, Fig. 2, has been kindly lent by 

 Mr. R. Adkin. 



The caterpillar, stated by Hofmann to feed on lichen growing 

 upon oak and birch, is brownish variegated with paler shades. 



Brussels Lace {Cleora Uchenaria). 



The greenish grey species shown on Plate 136, Figs, i J , 2 $ > 

 varies in tint ; the fore wings are often clouded with olive, and 

 occasionally with blackish ; there is frequently a tinge of 



