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wlutisli-jellow ; cosse and trochanters fusceseent ; oecasionally a brownish mark at 

 the apex of posterior femora and tibiae externally. Anterior wings oval, whitish- 

 grey, the dorsal and apical margins often faintly tinged with brownish-grey (as in 

 the preceding) ; neuration with black points (the angulate grey markings very faint), 

 which are usually absent in the area between the gradate series (and also sometimes 

 for a large space on the disc), these gradate series unuaJly placed close together and 

 parallel, the upper portion of the inner series abbreviated or absent ; the usual 



dark markings are as follows : 

 a series of points at the 

 origin of the sectors, these 

 sectors often 4 in number 

 (or 4 and 3 asymmetrically) ; 

 a large spot at the sub-basal 

 cubital constriction, con- 

 tinued in a more or less 

 interrupted manner to the 

 inner gradate series which 

 forms a fascia, and a second 

 maculntc parallel fascia is 

 on the outer series, these 

 markings are much more 

 regular than in pini ; pte- 

 rostigmatic region long, opaque, yellowish to reddish, and also in the posterior 

 wings, which are as in pini. Expanse, 14"5 — 18 mm. 



Appendages of the $ apparently as in pini. 



I have 7iot examined examples from Scandinavia and Finland, and 

 accept this as limbatellus, Zett., on the authority of Wallengren and 

 Eeuter. It appears to be common in the mountain ranges of Germany, 

 Austria, Switzerland, Pyrenees, &c. : occurs in the Vosges, very com- 

 mon in the Schwarzwald. 



As British I have seen only one example, a 5 taken by myself at 

 Black Park, Buckinghamshire, on June 25th, 1873. 



Differs irom jjini in its average size, the characteristic markings 

 of the anterior wings, the closely-placed parallel gradate series, and also 

 in the frequent presence of four sectors (of 25 examples examined, 

 14 have 3 sectors in both anterior wings, 7 have 4 in both, and 4 have 

 3 and 4 asymmetrically). 



II. ATRiFRONs, RlcLach. (1868), Wallengr., Rostock, Renter. 

 Race of pini ?. 

 fasciatu^, Goszy (1852, pre-occupied), Brauer. 



Head : face w/iol/i/ deep shining black (paler in immature examples) ; above 

 black at the sides, shining pale yellow in the middle, which colour is continued as a 



