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very local in Scotland, and apparently not extending further 

 north than the Clyde Valley and one locality in Perthshire. 

 Abroad found throughout Central Eui'ope, the temperate 

 portions of Northern Europe, Italy, and Southern and 

 Eastern Russia. 



Genus 2. PARAPONYX. 



Antennse long, notched, bent at the base ; palpi pointed, 

 curved up, body not very slender ; fore v?ings elongate, rather 

 narrow ; discal cell also long and narrow ; hind wings some- 

 what elongated, not very ample, cross-bar angulated ; legs 

 long. Sexes differing in size and appearance. 



We have but one species. 



1. P. stratiotalis, Schiff.; stratiotata, L. — Expanse 

 ^ to 1^ inch. Fore wings narrow, brownish-white with dark 

 brown clouded lines and a white discal spot ; but in the 

 female entirely clouded with light brown. Hind wings 

 white with a cloudy stripe. 



Antennae of the male simple, light brown, barred with 

 white ; palpi small and slender, white clouded with brown ; 

 face white ; top of head, thorax, and abdomen pale golden- 

 brown with white shading. Fore wings narrowly oblong, 

 blunt behind; costa almost straight; apex bluntly angulated; 

 hind margin short, not very oblique, bent and curved off 

 below the middle ; brownish-white or pale brown ; first line 

 faintly indicated in obscure brown dusting, but blackened on 

 the middle nervures ; second line very oblique, umbreous, 

 edged outside with white ; discal spot a white dot ringed 

 with black ; subterminal line faint, white with a brown 

 edging ; cilia glossy pale brown. Hind wings long, the hind 

 margin flatly rounded ; white, with a sinuous black-brown 

 stripe beyond the middle, which does not attain to the front 

 margin ; hind margin narrowly and faintly tinted with pale 

 brown ; cilia white clouded and dotted with the same. 

 Female larger, the body decidedly stouter, the fore wings 



