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aimilar ground close to Brandon, Suffolk. From that 

 time to the present, it has been found all over that sandy 

 region, and to extend from it to some of the more chalky 

 portions of Norfolk and Suffolk. Elsewhere it is found at 

 Deal and Dover, Kent, and in North Devon, but this is, I 

 think, the extent of its range in these Islands. Abroad it is 

 widely distributed through Central and Southern Europe 

 including Corsica, also in Asia Minor, the Canaries, and 

 Northern Africa. 



3. O. hieracii, ^«//.— Expanse f inch (17-19 mm.). 

 Fore wings rather broad behind, with drooping tips ; deep 

 red-brown with shining white transverse stripes across the 

 lobes. Hind wings glossy goiden-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, slender, red-brown thickly 

 dotted with white ; palpi slender, dark brown ; head and 

 thorax pale red-brown, the latter barred across the back and 

 the shoulder lappets with yellow-brown ; abdomen light 

 chestnut with oblique dorsal silvery-white markings. Foi-e 

 wings very slightly broader and more robust than in the 

 previous species, costa straight to beyond the middle, then 

 arched with a big curve so that the apex is obliquely pointed 

 down; hind margin of each segment deeply hollowed; dorsal 

 margin also concave, having befoi-e the middle a tooth of 

 brown scales, red-brown ; at some distance from the base is 

 a slightly paler red-brown oblique transverse stripe, very 

 obscure ; before the fissure is a white spot arising on the 

 costa ; beyond this a yellow-white transverse narrow stripe, 

 crossing both fissures, is oblique in each, but in different 

 directions, forming almost a right angle ; much nearer the 

 apex a narrower and more direct stripe is glistening yellow- 

 white ; from it a similar streak in the costa runs into the apex ; 

 cilia yellow-white streaked with red-brown. Hind wings 

 chocolate-brown with a bright golden gloss ; cilia similar ; on 

 the hinder lobe the usual black tooth of scales is broad and 

 bounded on either side by a few white scales. Legs very lono- 



