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trunks, also to blossoms of ragwort. Conmion in woods 

 tlirougliout England, except that it seems to be scarce in 

 Cornwall, and also in Northumberland and Durham. Found 

 in South Wales to Pembrokeshire, and probably throughout 

 the Principality. In Scotland common in all the wooded 

 portions of the Lowlands, and to Perthshire and IVIoray ; but 

 scarce in most of the Highland districts, and apparently 

 absent from the Isles. In Ireland it is not plentiful, indeed 

 usually scarce, yet has been found in the Dublin district, 

 Wicklow, Westmeath, Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Monaghan, 

 Tyrone, Armagh, Down, Antrim, and Londonderry, Abroad 

 it has a wide range ; through Central Europe, South Sweden, 

 Northern Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, Dalmatia, Livonia, Northern 

 Africa, Asia Minor, and Japan, in which last country it is of 

 larger size, and has received the name of cxigua. 



2. C. pyralina, iS'c/m/.— Expanse 1| to If inch. Fore 

 wings broad, rather triangular, purple-brown, clouded with 

 light chocolate ; second line white, and throwing off white 

 clouding near the apex of the wing. Hind wings pale 

 smoky-brown, with a darker hinder band. 



Antennas of the male thick, simple, cylindrical, red-brown ; 

 palpi slender, purple-red, apical joint long; head rather 

 rough, chocolate or purple-red ; thorax similar or rather 

 darker, smooth, the scales at the back drawn together into 

 small oblique tufts tipped with dark purple ; fascicles 

 smoky-white ; abdomen rather slender and compressed, 

 tapering, pale smoky-brown dusted with darker; lateral 

 tufts obscure ; anal tuft long and narrow, light purple-red. 

 Fore wings rather triangular, broad ; costa gently arched ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin minutely crenulated, 

 oblique but straight to below the middle, thence rounded 

 off; dorsal margin faintly rounded, more fully so toward the 

 base ; colour rich purple-brown, rather glistening ; basal line 

 suo-o-ested by a faintly paler dot on the costa, and a still more 

 obscure streak from it ; first line very oblique, and repeatedly 



