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Oxfordshire, Herts, Essex and Suffolk ; more scarce in Nor- 

 folk and Cambridgeshire, except in the fens, to which it 

 seems j^artial wherever a thicket of bushes occurs ; also 

 found in Worcestershire, and very locally in Yorkshire, 

 North Lancashire, and Westmoreland. So far as I know 

 this is the extent of its range in these Islands. Mr. Fenn 

 tells me that at one time it was to be found in some parts of 

 the outskirts of London, but from them has almost or quite 

 disappeared. Abroad it is common in Central Europe, the 

 northern half of Italy, Livonia, the Ural Mountain district, 

 Eastern Siberia, and the mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



2. S. rhamnata, Srkiff. — Expanse 1|- to Ih inch. Fore 

 wings broad, pointed, crenulated behind, sienna-brown, the 

 central band black-brown, or nmbreous edged with black, 

 throwing a black stripe into the apex. Hind wings deeply 

 scalloped behind, pale sienna-brown, with blacker transverse 

 lines. 



Antenna^ of the male short, simple, minutely ciliated, 

 dark )>rown. paler in front; palpi ::lender, drooping, black- 

 brown, tipped with white; face rough, black-brown; head 

 similar, the scales erected, drawn back from the bases of 

 the autennie, and pressed against the paler neck-ridge ; 

 thorax nan-ow, umbreous, minutely tufted at the back ; 

 abdomen slender and long, pale brown dusted with umbreous 

 and minutely barred with black ; anal tuft rather large but 

 pointed, and hardly extending beyond the wings. Fore 

 wings very broad but pointed ; costs gently arched, more so 

 toward the apex, which is sharply angulated ; hind margin 

 very oblique, faintly rounded and crenulated, but almost 

 refuse just below the apex; dorsal margin fully rounded; 

 colour light umbreous or sienna-brown ; basal line very 

 oblique, dark umbreous, dusted outside with white ; first 

 line extremely oblique, but suddenlj^ bent back near the 

 costa, brown-black, edged by a faint line of pale dusting, 

 and preceded by two nearly parallel umbreous lines, second 



