J.ARENTID.K—CIDARIA. riQ'J 



In Scotland ifc is excessively abundant iu the mountain dis- 

 tricts of Pei-tlishire. Inverness, and .Vberdeeushire. and in 

 suitable '•' mosses'" tbrougliout the south of that country, also 

 inhabiting the Hebrides and Orkneys. In Ireland more local, 

 but abundant iu the bogs and on the mountains of Kerry, 

 and iu the small adjacent islands ; also in d'alway, Antrim, 

 and Donegal. 



Abroad it has an immense range through the hill and 

 mountain districts of Central Europe, Northern Euroiie to 

 Lapland, the Ural ^Mountain districts, Tartary, the mountain 

 regions of Central Asia, all the Northern United States of 

 America to Colorado ; Canada to Vancouver, and Labrador. 



15. C. testata, T.. — E.vpanse 1 to IJ. inch. Fore wings 

 of the male pale yellcwisli-grey, with a very broad purplish- 

 brown central band and similar basal blotch ; a light orange- 

 red lunate blotch lies on the hind margin under the apex. Of 

 the female pale ochreous with markings orange-brown. Hind 

 wings of both silky purplish, or yellowish-white. 



Antenna; of the male notched, simple, ciliated, pale 

 purplish-yellow, whiter at the back ; palpi long, porrected, 

 pale chocolate ; face and head Ijrowuish-white ; neck-ridge 

 and thorax orange-yellow, the tuft at the back of the latter 

 small ; abdomen long and slender, pale purplish-yellow ; the 

 lateral and anal tufts well developed. Fore wings broad 

 behind ; costa regularly arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; the 

 hind margin very fully rounded and expanded; dorsal margin 

 straight ; colour pale yellowish-grey, or purplish-grey with 

 faint orange clouding ; basal line bent outwardly, orange- 

 brown, nearer the base is a similar slender line ; first line 

 very indistinct, pale orange-brown, sharply angulated on the 

 median nervure, thence oblique to both margins; second line 

 of the same colour, edged outside with white, very straight 

 obliquely from the costa toward the hind margin, but bent 

 back in the middle with a blunt angle, and thence scalloped; 

 the enclosed space forming a centi'ai band of purple-brown or 



