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Moncrieffe Hill, in the same county. In Ireland ilr. W. F. 

 de V. Kane records the capture of a single specimen by 

 himself in Clare, and another by Mr. E. R. Curzon in 

 Galway. 



Abroad it inhabits great part of Central Europe, Italy, 

 Dalmatia, Finland, Southern and Eastern Russia, and the 

 Central Asian mountain region. 



2. A. rubidata, ^vhiij'. — Expanse 1^ to \\ inch. Fore 

 wings rich purplish-red, with the central portion grey ; black 

 stripes at the basal and first lines, and one, more sinuous, in 

 the costal jDortion of the second line, which is otherwise faint. 

 Hind wings smoky-white. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, shining purplish- 

 brown ; palpi and face black-brown ; head and thorax dark 

 umbreous shaded with black, the latter having a thick tuft 

 of raised black scales across its hinder area, behind which, 

 across the base of the abdomen, is a whitish-purple Ijand ; 

 rest of the abdomen smoky purplish-brown, each segment 

 tipped on the dorsal ridge with black ; anal tuft small. Costa 

 of the fore wings arched at the base and the apical portion, 

 but straighter between ; apex bluntly angulated, almost 

 rounded ; hind margin rather perpendicular and very greatly 

 curved ; dorsal margin rather filled out ; colour dull purple- 

 red ; basal blotch grey-black, edged and intersected with 

 deep black ; first line straiglit from the dorsal margin to near 

 the costa, then curved back, foi'ming the inner edge C'f a 

 narrow black transverse stripe ; second line from the costa 

 to near the middle sinuous, or twice curved, but forming the 

 outer edge of an abbreviated black stripe from the costa 

 edged outwardly with white, thence to the dorsal margin 

 very slender and deeply scalloped throughout ; within the 

 enclosed central band, which is smoky-grey or reddish-grey, 

 are one or two much indented slender black transverse lines, 

 which, with the scalloped second line, form a very pretty 

 lace-like pattern of markings ; subterminal line white, 



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