334 I.El'IDOPTERA. 



Iit'aten out will fly sharply into some dense cover. At niglit 

 it comes occasionally to light; but is not commonly met 

 with. It is found locally in Kent, Sussex, the Isle of Wight, 

 Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and the Eastern Counties ; 

 l)ut seems to be absent from many of the Western and the 

 Midlands, and except that it is very local in Yorkshire. 

 Durham, and Westmoreland, not known in the Northern 

 Counties. In Scotland, however, it has many localities — 

 Berwickshire, East l^othian, .Midlothian. Ayrshire, Perth- 

 shire, Aberdeen, and even Orkney, where near Stromness it 

 was taken by ^Ir. Cheesuian. In Ireland it has long been 

 known to occur on the Dublin coast, where the late IJichard 

 Shield found it on old blackthorns ; more recently it has been 

 taken in Gahvay and Derrv. Abroad its range seems to be 

 much restricted, but it is recorded in Central and Western 

 France and Northern Spain. 



13. S. angustea, (SY-y///. ; coarctalis, G'/f. — Expanse ■; to 

 I inch (15-'2omm.). Fore wings long and narrow, pointed, 

 brownish-white, the markings dark brown ; orbicular stigma 

 elongated ; hind margin retuse. Hiud wings silky^, white 

 or smoky white. 



Antenna? of the male simple, shining brown ; labial palpi 

 porrected, long and broadly tufted ; maxillary palpi more 

 erect and shorter, tufted ; l)otli dark brown with the inner 

 portions whiter ; head and thorax drab ; abdomen glossy 

 whitish brown with the segments edged with white. Fore 

 wings long, narrow and pointed : costa very flatly arched 

 throughout; apex decidedly angulated, and hind margin 

 very oblique, retuse below the apex ; colour brownish-white 

 or very pale drab; the mai'kings blackish-brown or dull 

 brown ; at the base is a cloud of brown dusting enclosing a 

 black streak ; first line very oljlique, cloudy and faintly 

 notched ; toiieiiing it is the claviforni stigma, a thick black 

 streak; orbicular stigma ovate, edged with black: reniform 

 stigma brighter brown, also edged with black', which edging 



