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brown ; and in the intensity of the markings. Those of the 

 North of England are not usually by any means so strongly 

 marked as those from Scottish hill and mountain districts — 

 though these last show considerable diversity in their dark 

 markings. One in my own collection has the spaces before 

 the first line and beyond the second uniformly dark grey. 

 On the wing from July till the beginning of September. 



Larva and Pupa quite unknown. The late Dr. Buchanan 

 White stated that he had been unable to find the larva in 

 any moss, even in the places in which the moth was most 

 abundant. 



This is a hill and mountain-frequenting species. It usually 

 avoids trees and exists only on the open portions of the hills 

 among heather, sitting upon the heather, flying up readily 

 from the footstep only to return to a similar resting-place. 

 In England it is only found in the north, the most southern 

 records being at the Longridge, near Preston, Lancashire, 

 and the Blackhills, Yorkshire. It is also locally common on 

 mountains in Cumberland and Westmoreland, but so far as 

 I know has not yet been noticed in Wales. In Scotland it 

 is found on the hills of Roxburghshire and Fife ; in Renfrew, 

 and other hill localities near the Clyde Valley, including 

 Dumbartonshire; in Perthshire. Aberdeenshire, and Inver- 

 ness, and doubtless all the suitable hills of the north ; also in 

 Orkney and Shetland, in the last-named Isles being found all 

 over the moors. In Ireland it seems to be confined to the 

 more northern portions^Fermanagh, Sligo, Derry and 

 Donegal. Its range abroad seems to be quite uncertain ; 

 specimens sent to Professor Zeller before his death were 

 pronounced to be a form which he had never seen, rather 

 similar to S.petrophila, but distinct. 



5. S. ulmella, Dak, Knagrjx ; conspicualis, Hghn. — 

 Expanse J inch (16-19 mm.). Fore wings silky, rather 

 thinly scaled, narrow at the base, white ; first line smoothly 



