SCOP ARIID^—SCOP ARIA. 3^7 



tbat they feed in the same manner, no amount of searching 

 among moss seems to furnish them ; and the comparatively 

 recent discovery of one species as a roo/-feeder, seems to 

 point to the possibility in others of some quite different 

 mode of life. 



The pupae, so far as is known, are enclosed in rather 

 tough silken cocoons, in the substance in which the larva has 

 been feeding. 



1. S. cembrse, Haw. — Expanse \ to 1 inch. Fore wings 

 elongated, dull brownish-grey ; the two transverse lines 

 even and rather direct, darker grey ; discal spot absent, or 

 sometimes X-shaped. Hind wings shining smoky white. 



Antennte of the male rather short, simple, ciliated, 

 brownish-drab ; both pairs of palpi distinctly visible, grey- 

 drab ; head brownish-white ; thorax not thick, brownish- 

 drab ; abdomen silky, very pale drab, having lateral tufts. 

 Fore wings elongated ; costa very flatly arched ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin short, a little oblique and 

 very little carved ; colour grey-drab or brownish-grey, rather 

 brown along the costa ; markings black but all obscure ; first 

 line dusted with grey, nearly erect, and placed in contact 

 with a short thick horizontal streak — the claviform stigma 

 — beneath the median nervure ; orbicular stigma indicated 

 by a black dot, and the reniform by a broad X-mark, often 

 indistinct ; second line rather direct and not very oblique, 

 angled inwards a little above the middle, dotted and edged 

 outwardly by a whitish line or shade ; hind margin faintly 

 dotted with brown ; cilia grej^-brown with paler dappling. 

 Hind wings ample, the apex rounded, and hind margin 

 sinuous ; silky, pale smoky brown ; cilia whiter. Female 

 similar, but rather larger, and the fore wings slightly broader ; 

 sometimes also having the markings more distinct. <. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoky grey-brown, 

 with the costa rather paler. Hind wings smoky whit-e. 

 Body and legs pale drab. 



