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Finland, South Sweden. Bithynia, Poutus, Tartary, and North 

 Africa. 



5. B. uliginosalis. Stcph.; alpinalis, Stainton's Manual. 

 —Expanse, male 1 to \\ inch; female f to ^ inch. Fore 

 wings shining yellow-brown or yellow-grey with a small 

 faintly indicated dull white cloud at the end of the discal 

 cell. Hind wings smoky white with a smoky brown hind 

 border. 



Antenna of the male simple, black-brown ; palpi porrected, 

 but not long, tufted and pointed, pale brown ; head and 

 thorax light reddish-brown or olive-brown ; abdomen slender, 

 glossy greyish-white ; anal tuft yellow-brown. Fore wings 

 long and pointed; costa faintly undulating ; apex angulated ; 

 hind margin oblique, hardly curved ; colour pale olive-brown' 

 yellow-grey or yellow-brown, very glossy, without perceptible 

 markings except a cloudy white dot, or small cloud of white 

 at the end of the discal cell ; cilia concolorous. Hind wino-s 

 shining smoky-white; the nervures, and a band of even 

 width along the hind margin, smoky brown ; sometimes a 

 similar slender stripe crosses the middle of the wing ; cilia 

 dusky white. Female smaller ; the fore wings narrowe'r and 

 more sharply pointed, paler or yellower in colour ; hiud 

 wings darker ; body shorter. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smokv brown, uni- 

 colorous ; hind wings shining white with smoky marginal 

 shading and a similar slender central transverse line. Body 

 and legs grey-brown. 



Variable, as already suggested, in the ground colour of the 

 fore wings from yellowish-drab to pale red-brown ; and a 

 little so in the degree of smoky shading of the hind wino-s 

 On the wing in the latter part of June and in July. 



Larva "glossy brown-red, with four shining raised dots on 

 the back of each segment, and a somewhat swollen stripe 

 along the sides ; head and front feet bright black. ^" 



'■July on grasses and low-growing plants" (Freyer) 



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