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Pupa light brown, in a white web. (Hofmann.) 



This is a species of which we know, in this country, nest 

 to nothing. A specimen was taken in the afternoon of 

 August 31, 1888, by Mr. Sydney Webb, on the side of a hill 

 just outside Dover ; and another was secured by Mr. W. 

 Purdey in the Warren at Folkestone. About these there is 

 no question. Other specimens are asserted to have been 

 taken about the year 1870, one account says in Kent, 

 another in Norfolk, and great and reasonable doubt was 

 felt as to their nativity ; but the only caiain records are, as 

 above, from Kent. 



Abroad it is common and widely distributed through 

 Central and Southern Europe, Livonia, Southern and 

 Eastern Russia, Bithynia, Armenia, and Syria. 



6. S. carnella, Z., semirubella, maud. Crt^.— Expanse 

 1 inch (24-27 mm.). Fore wings elongate, blunt, purplish- 

 crimson, shading into pale yellow at the dorsal margin, and 

 sometimes with a white stripe along the costa. Hind wings 

 pale smoky-brown or smoky-white. 



Antennae of the male thick, simple, but with an expansion 

 on the upper side of the second joint, yellow-brown tinged 

 in front with purple; palpi broad but pointed, rather 

 prominent, pale purple, more yellowish-white inside ; head 

 pale drab ; thorax ochreous, tinged on either side with 

 purple ; abdomen very pale brown. Fore wings rather 

 broad, but elongated ; costa gently arched ; apex bluntly or 

 squarely angulated ; hind margin faintly rounded, colour 

 rich purple-crimson shading off broadly to ochreous in the 

 dorsal area ; without markings ; cilia pale purple. Hind 

 wings ample, rounded behind, pale smoky-brown, vei-j 

 glossy ; cilia pale purple. Female with threadlike antennaj, 

 otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky -grey, shading whiter 

 toward the dorsal margin ; cilia tinged with purple. Hind 



