SC01>AKI/DJ£—SC0PA KIA 323 



Abroad it seems to frequent all the moimtain ranges of 

 Central Europe, and Northern Europe to the Polar region, 

 including Lapland. 



8. S. truncicolella, Stn. — Expanse 'l to ; inch (18-22 

 mm.). Fore wings very narrow at the base, broad behind ; 

 glossy grey-white ; the Hues clouded and dusted ; the discal 

 spot an X-mark. Hind wings white. 



Antennae of the male simple, dark brown, regularly baiTed 

 with glossy white ; labial palpi rather drooping, narrow, 

 black outside, w-hite within ; maxillary palpi small but 

 similar; head greyish-white ; thorax of the same colour, but 

 much dusted and clouded with grey ; abdomen silky brownish- 

 white. Fore wings narrow at the base, rapidly broadened, 

 and rounded behind ; costa strongly arched ; apex almost 

 rounded and the curve carried round the hind margin, yet 

 the anal angle well formed ; white dusted with black-bi'own ; 

 in the middle of the liase is a horizontal black streak, but 

 sometimes this extends itself as a much angulated basal 

 line ; first line black, indented, upright, followed by some 

 Ijlack dusting; orbicular and claviform stigmata detached, 

 both elongated black dots ; reniform stigma 8-shaped, the 

 two rings flattened a little, but often with the margins 

 incomplete ; second line regularly and plentifully rippled 

 and indented, black, expanded on the costa to a triangular 

 spot and edged by a slender parallel white stripe ; in the 

 white area beyond this are three patches of grey dusting, the 

 darkest being in the middle ; hind margin closely dotted 

 with black and edged with white; cilia white with smoky 

 clouding. Hind wings not very broad, the hind margin 

 ilatly rounded, and apex somewhat ]TOiuted ; silky smoky 

 white; cilia of the same colour, but with a pale Hue along 

 the extreme hind margin. Female rather larger, and having 

 both fore and hind wings a very little broader, sometimes 

 also suffused with darker clouding. 



Underside very silky ; the fore wings smoky-white, with 



