240 LEPIDOI'TERA. 



in Gray's Inn Gardens, Holborn, London, by ilrs. Meldola; 

 and on the Surrey side of the metropolis I myself took a 

 specimen, forty years ago, at a gas lamp at Dulwich. The 

 only records that I possess for any other portions of the 

 United Kingdom are, in Scotland, that of one taken by 

 Professor Traill at Old Aberdeen ; in Ireland, one at Howth, 

 near Dublin, by Dr. Percival Wright, and one at Derry by 

 Messrs. Campbell. 



Now while this is still in manuscript a specimen has 

 reached me, caught last summer, by Mr. W. Evans, at 

 Luflness, near Edinburgh ; and Mr. John Ross, formerly 

 of Anstruther, now of Kirkcaldy, has sent me another — one of 

 twelve specimens — taken by him in Fifeshire in July 1901. 



Abroad it seems to be found all over Continental Europe 

 except the coldest portions, Asia Minor, Armenia, Siberia, 

 and Tartary ; and in North America, in Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 and Colorado. 



2. S. palealis, Schiff. — Expanse 1^ inch. Fore wings 

 sulphur-white, with the nervures often faintly pale brown, 

 frequently also a pale brown cloud lies at the end of the 

 discal cell. Hind wings silky white. 



Antenna) of the male simple, dark brown, back of the 

 shaft yellow ; palpi small, dull chocolate ; tongue broad and 

 prominent ; face chocolate-brown ; head and thorax pale 

 sulphur-yellow, the latter rather thick ; abdomen not very 

 slender, yellowish-white. Fore wings elongated, narrow at 

 the base ; costa almost hollowed before the middle, much 

 arched beyond ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 straight and oblique, rounded off toward the anal angle ; 

 colour pale sulphur-yellow or sulphur-white; nervures 

 narrowly browner ; beyond the middle an ill-defined small 

 black-brown cloud lies on the junction of nervures at the 

 lower angle of the discal cell ; cilia yellow-white. Hind 

 wings not very ample ; bluntly angulated at the apex, some- 

 what rounded behind ; semi-transparent white with a smoky 



