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liablv AVales, since it is not scarce in • ilamorgansliire and 

 Pembrokeshire, and is taken in Flintshire. In Scotland it 

 occurs throughout the southern districts to the Clyde valley iu 

 the west and to Aberdeenshire in the east, being eoniinon on 

 some of the hills to 15U0 feet above sea level ; more local in 

 other parts, and tolerably common in the Hebrides and the 

 Orkneys. In the Shetland Isles it is found freely in a little 

 copse at the north end of the Island of Unst, and doulitless 

 elsewhere where there is sufficient shelter. Also generally 

 distributed in Ireland, and locally common. I have seen it 

 in multitudes in woods between the hills of Antrim. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe and the 

 greater part of Northern Europe, including Lapland ; also iu 

 China and Japan, with Yesso -, and iu Xorth America in New 

 England, New York State, Wisconsin, (.'anada, and Van- 

 couver. 



S. C. suffamata, Xrliiff. — Expanse I to 1 \ inch. Fore 

 wings brownish-white, base and central b.and dark undireous, 

 the latter broad and having a thick, double-toothed outward 

 projection from the middle ; a sinuous white streak runs 

 through a black cloud to the apex. Hind wings smoky 

 greyish-white. 



Antenniu of the male simple, thickly ciliated, brown ; 

 palpi not long, Idunt, nmbreous ; face, head, neck-ridge and 

 thorax dull brown, dusted with white; at the back of the 

 latter is a small blunt tuft of brown and white scales ; labdo- 

 men rather slender, pale brown, dusteil with white and the 

 segments edged therewith ; anal tuft large, light brown. 

 Fore wings rather elongated ; costa regularly arched ; ajiex 

 very bluntly angulated, almost rounded ; hind and doi-sal 

 margins gently and smoothly curved ; shining brownish 

 white; basal line l)lack-l)rown, angulated and enclosing a 

 dark umbreous basal blotch, and outwardly edged Ijy a 

 white slender line ; first line ivather erect, twice angulated 

 outwards, edged inside by a slender white cloud, through 



