214 LEPIDOPTERA. 



hcatcn ont of hrooin ! " not far from the city of Perth," by 

 Mr. D. P. Jlorrison, of Pelton. In 1870 Mr. T. H. AUis 

 publisliod a statement that lie had in his collection two old 

 specimens wliich had bi'eii tidct-n at Stockton-in-the-Forest 

 by IJenry Baines. Immediatfly after this the species was 

 reported from Kent, and considerable nundiers of specimens 

 were forwarded to many purchasers as from that county. 

 The authenticity of these was, however, quickly disj^roved, 

 and there is little or no reason to believe that this prett}- 

 species — which is conspicuously lively and active in the sun- 

 shine, ilitting about ilower.s — has any claim to a place in the 

 British Fauna. Indeed it is remarkable that in no case 

 does any one assert his own actual capture of the insect. It 

 is abundant in many jiarts of tlif C'untinent of Europe, 

 including the Scandinavian I'eninsida, and it is its ahsc/irr 

 from these Islands that is remarkable.] 



(ienus in. STERRHA. 



Antenna) of the male pectinated with long thin oblique 

 teeth; palpi short and thick; head rough; thorax and 

 abdomen smooth and very slender ; fore wings long and 

 sharply pointed ; hind wings long, rounded, silky and very 

 thin ; the veins 7 and 8 joined half way down the cell. Ko 

 trace of the ordinary pattern of markings. 



We liave but one species. 



I. S. sacraria, /,. — l*]xpanse 1 incli. Fore wings bright 

 lemon-yellow, with a purplish-pink stripe from the middle 

 of the dorsal margin to the ape.x. Hind wings white. 



Antenn<c of the male strongly pectinated to two-thirds 

 of their length with obli(|ue ciliated teeth, glossy golden- 

 brown; pal])i short but thick; head very prominent, the 

 face slojnng forward, fulvous, the top yellow ; neck-ridge 

 and the very narrow thorax yellow ; abdomen slender, shining 

 white; lateral tufts minute; anal tuft narrow. Fore win'js 



