3i6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



turbed, again to another, but makes no attempt to leave its 

 favourite locality. This is usually in or near woods, or in 

 marshes where sallows are in plenty, but the spot beloved 

 above all others is an open wood of large Scotch firs under 

 which the whortleberry grows knee-high, and where hollies 

 are scattered in stubby bushes. In such a place it may some- 

 times be found in dozens, but in its other haunts it is seldom 

 very coiiiiuon. It Hies naturally, like its allies, at dusk, and may 

 occasionally be, at night, attracted to light. It seems to be rare 

 in (Jornvvall, but with this excfjition occurs, here and there, 

 in suitable wooded places throughout the South of Knglaiid, 

 the Eastern Counties inchuling the fens; also in Herefordshire 

 and Worcestershire, and a few places in Staffordshire. War- 

 wickshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Westmoreland : taken 

 rarely in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and once in Durham. 

 In Wales it has been taken at Sketty Park, near Swansea, 

 and elsewhere in Glamorganshire, also rarelv in Pembroke- 

 shire ; in Scotland only in the e.xtreme South ; but in Ireland 

 it has a more extensive range, being found in Wicklow, 

 Cork, Kerry, with llii- neighbouring island of Garinish ; at 

 St. Clerans, Galway ; iu ^Wstmeath. Meath, Mayo, Sligo, 

 and Derry. 



Abroad it has a very wide range, extending through 

 Central Europe, the temperate regions of Northern Europe, 

 Northern Ital}-, the I'ral Mountain district, Tartary, the 

 mountainous regions of Central Asia, Japan ; al^o ('anada to 

 Vancouver, Nova Scotia, Colorado, I'ennsylvania, New York 

 State, New Jersey, Massachusetts; ,iTid in Maine it is said to 

 be common about the houses ! 



1. S.dubitata, L. — Expanse \\ to 1.^ inch. Fore wings 

 very ample, shining. ])ale purple-brown with greenish reflec- 

 tions, and dark brown transverse bands, here and there 

 blackened, hind margin crenulated. Hind wings long, 

 deeply scalloped, silky, smoky-brown. 



Antenna? of the male sitiiple, minutely ciliated, brown ; 



