254 LEPIDOPTERA. 



aot very scarce. In Scotland, thouf,'h uncommon, it has a 

 rather considerable range, Berwick, Uoxbinyh. the Solway 

 district, Clydesdale, Perthshire, Moray, Aberdeenshire, and 

 Inverness. Widely distributed also in Ireland, and in some 

 few localities abundant, Dublin, Wicklow, Wuterford, Kerry, 

 Galway, Westnieath, Monaglian, Sligo, Antrim, and rarely 

 in Derrj-. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe, Northern 

 Italy, Spain, the South of Sweden, Finland, and Armenia. 



2. C. miata, L. — Expanse 1^ to \\ inch. Fore wings 

 green, marbled and mottled, broken into paler and darker 

 bauds ; subterminal line white. Bind wings smoky-white 

 with a central black spot. 



.\ntenna3of the male simple, minutely ciliated, light brown. 

 faintly barred at the back with white ; jialpi pnijccting, gret-n 

 dusted with black ; eyes black ; face, head, and neck-ridge 

 green shaded with white ; thorax green faintly dusted with 

 black and the scales raised at the back into a blunt tuft ; 

 abdomen long and slender, greenish-brown, barred on each 

 segment with white, on the second is a small erect green 

 crest ; anal tuft long, light brown. Fore wings rather elon- 

 gated ; costa gently arched throughout ; apex very bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin gently curved ; dorsal margin also 

 filled out and ciliated ; glossy light pea-green ; the basal 

 blotch deeper green, edged by a slender black angulated 

 basal line ; first lini^ parallel with this, angulated and curved, 

 but rather erect, blackish-green ; second line of the same 

 colour, also rather erect, curved below the middle, indentt-d 

 above; each of these three lines is outwardly edged with 

 white dusting ; space between the first and second forming u 

 central band either of deeper green or edged therewith, and 

 marbled with parallel blackish-green lines rather thickened 

 on the nervures ; discal spot perceptible as a faint black- 

 green dot; hind-marginal space broadly clouded with deeper 

 green, and intersected b}- the grecnish-wbite subterminal 



