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Essex, and may still be found in these two counties — indeed 

 the larva was found in some numbers in 1901. Some of 

 these were kindly sent me by Mr. 0. W. Watts, have hyber- 

 nated in my own possession, and have now (1902) happily 

 emerged. There is also a record of capture last year by ^Ir. 

 A. E. Gibbs in Herts. 



Abroad it has a rather wide distribution through Central 

 and Southern Continental Europe, South Norway, Corsica, 

 Madeira, the Canaries, Morocco and other parts of Northern 

 Africa, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Tartary, Northern India, 

 China, and Japan. 



3. S. cinctalis, Tr. ; verticalis, Staud. Cat. — Expanse 

 1 to Ij inch. Fore wings rich shining ochreous j'ellow ; 

 transverse lines and edges of the stigmata deeper ochreous. 

 Hind wings yellowish-white with faint smoky transverse 

 lines. Underside very strongly marked in black. 



Antennae long, threadlike, pale yellow ; palpi very small, 

 triangular, pale chocolate; head and thorax yellow ; abdomen 

 yellowish-white. Fore wings elongated, narrow at the base ; 

 costa arched throughout ; apex angulated ; hind margin 

 oblique but very little rounded ; shining silky yellow ; the 

 markings faintly of a richer yellow ; lirst line erect, second 

 very oblique, but nearly .straight and ripjjled ; subterminal 

 line broad and a little more distinct ; orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata of the same richer yellow, but indistinct ; cilia pale 

 yellow. Hind wings broad, rounded behind; apex very 

 bluntly angulated ; yellowish-white with faint indications of 

 cloudy smoke-coloured transverse stripes in the middle, and 

 at the hind margin ; cilia pale yellow. Female veiy similar, 

 yet having the fore wings a very little shorter and more 

 blunt, and the body thicker. 



Undersides of all the wings pale yellow with the nervures 

 black-brown; the ti-ansverse stripes, and the stigmata, dull 

 black, and a clouding of the same round the latter ; margins 

 of all the wings finely scalloped with leaden black. Body 



