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and Shetland Isles, where it is, as alreadj- stated, common in 

 the marshes, but quite local. In Ireland it is local and less 

 abundant, but found on hills about Athlone, (iahva}', West- 

 meath. King's County, Sligo, Monaghan. Tyrone. Down. 

 Antrim, and Derry. 



Abroad it is found on the mountains of Germany, Switzer- 

 land, Austria, and Piedmont ; in Iceland, Lapland, Finland, 

 and Livonia ; in North America in Pennsylvania, the Rocky 

 Mountains, Colorado, California, Vancouver, and Labrador, 



4. C. propugnata, S^cliifj. ; designata. Stand. Get. — Ex- 

 panse I to 1 inch. Fore wings greyish-white, mottled and 

 dotted with grey ; basal blotch and central baud purple-red 

 or purple-brown, the latter intersected and edged with lilack. 

 Hind wings white dappled with grey. 



Antennte of the male shortly pectinated with ver\- fine 

 teeth, pale brown ; palpi short, conical, dark brown ; eyes 

 large, smooth and shining, reddish-brown ; head and thorax 

 pale brown dusted with darker, the latter faintly barred with 

 black-brown, and tufted at the back with raised scales of 

 the same colour; abdomen dull drab, dusted with black, and 

 barred on each segment with black-brown ; anal tuft rather 

 expanded, ochreous. Fore wings short and blunt ; costa 

 slightly arched at the base, more so toward the tip, nearly 

 straight between ; apex very bluntly angulated ; liind margin 

 but little oblique, faiutly curved ; dorsal margin straight : 

 ground colour greyish-white ; basal blotch pale purple, edgeil 

 with black and divided by two parallel purple-black lines : 

 first line erect, gently curved, a conspicuous black stripe; 

 second line also rather upright, though less so, more slenderly 

 black and throwing out two blunt angles above the middle, 

 both of them more strongly tipped with black ; these lines 

 form the margins of a rich purple-red or purple-brown 

 central band, in which is a lilack line, nearly parallel with 

 the second line, and some black clouding between the two ; 

 beyond this, on the costa, is a small square jiurple blotch 



