132 LEPIDOPTERA. 



haunts are in chalk districts, or at any rate upon somewhat 

 calcareous soils, consequentlj' it is local, but abundant in 

 some southern districts, especially the Isle of Wight, and to 

 be found in every southern county from Kent to Cornwall, 

 and to Berks, Rucks, Oxfordshire, and Northampton, also in 

 Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and 

 throughout the Eastern Counties, though becoming very 

 scarce in Norfolk. It has been taken once in Warwickshire, 

 and rarely in Leicestershire: at Barrow, Derbyshire, and in 

 Yorkshire. In South Wales it is known to occur in Glamor- 

 ganshire, Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire ; and this, so 

 far as I know, is the e.xtent of its range in these Islands. 

 Abroad it inhabits Central Europe, Central and Northern 

 Italy, Hungary, Finland, the Northern Balkan States, Central 

 and Western Russia, Bithyuia. Tartary, the Ural Mountain 

 di.strict. and the mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



■'). A. badiata, ^chiff. — Expanse \\ to \\ inch. Fore 

 wings rather crenulated behind, reddish-white, I'eddish-yellow, 

 or pale purplish-red ; a brown oblique narrow stripe outside 

 the small basal blotch ; a partial similar stripe beyond the 

 middle ; hinder region purple-red. Ilind wings crenulated, 

 smoky purplish-grey. 



Antennas of the male simple, finely notched, ciliated, pale 

 brown; palpi small, dark umbreous ; face and head of 

 the same colour ; eyes leaden black ; thorax rather rough, 

 the shoulder lappets a little uplifted, purple-brown, across 

 the back there is a tuft of raised similar scales tipped with 

 white; abdomen glossy purple-brown, each segment barred 

 at the back with black and white ; anal tuft compressed. 

 Fore wings very broad, but pointed : costa arched at the 

 base and toward the tip, straighter between ; apex angulated, 

 rather pointed ; hind margin very long, crenulated, gently 

 curved and filled out; dorsal margin rather rounded ; shining 

 l)ale purple-brown, reddish-yellow, or reddish-white, shaded 

 with pale brown or rich purple ; basal blotch small, dark 



