$6 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



The Small Marbled {Thalpochares parva). 



This species, of which a foreign example is represented on 

 Plate 21, Fig. 3, has a similar distribution to that of T. ostrzna^ 

 only it does not seem to occur in Madeira or the Canaries, and 

 its eastward range extends to Central and Southern India. 



The fore wings are pale reddish ochreous ; first line, oblique, 

 dusky, slightly waved on lower half, bordered inwardly with 

 brownish and outwardly with white ; second line, dusky and 

 irregular. 



The earliest specimen noted in Britain was captured at 

 Teignmouth, South Devon, in July, 1844; another was said to 

 have been captured at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, but it 

 has been suggested that this specimen might probably be 

 referable to T. ostrina. Mr. E. Bankes has a specimen, taken 

 by himself on a salt marsh in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, 

 June 8, 1892. This seems to be all that is definitely known 

 of this species in Britain, but others have been noted from the 

 Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man. 



Thalpochares pmila. 



The fore wings are white, clouded with pale brownish grey 

 beyond the almost straight and rather oblique first line, and 

 also beyond the angulated second line. 



Of this species (Plate 21, Fig. 6) a specimen, now in the 

 collection of Mr. E. R. Bankes, was taken at Freshwater, Isle 

 of Wight, in June, 1872. Two other specimens, one of which 

 seems to have been captured by a boy who was collecting on 

 the south coast, were recorded in 1873 5 these insects were at 

 that time in the collection of the Rev. H. Burney, and had been 

 caught several years earlier. 



The range abroad extends through Europe and Asia to South 

 Siberia. The specimen figured is from Dresden. 



