12 LEPinOPTERA. 



certain evidence of tlie occurreuce of the species in any other 

 part of the British Isles, and although it certainly exists iu 

 Central Europe, the records are too much confused with 

 those of the allied species to furnish accurate information. 



4. A. rubrotibiella, /'. II. — Exjianse | inch (21-23 

 mm.). I'ore wings rather broadly squared behind, shining, 

 pale red or reddish-buff; first line white and red or red- 

 black, with raised scales. 



Antenna? of the male simple, basal joint thickened and 

 tufted, second thickened and twisted, pale brown, barred 

 with yellowish-white ; palpi slender, closely curved up, pale 

 brown or brownish-white ; face brownish-white ; head pale 

 yellow-brown ; thorax more purple-brown ; abdomen yellow- 

 ish-brown. Fore wings elongated, but broad and dilated 

 behind ; costa almost straight ; apex squarely angulated ; 

 hind margin perpendicular and very straight, so as to form a 

 widely squared anal angle; the base pale reddish -bn£F with 

 deeper red clouding at the costa ; first line rather far from 

 the base, oblique, straight, white, with an outer edging of 

 rich red or red-black, of which the scales are roughened and 

 uplifted ; discal dots as in the other species, but very obscurely 

 black ; second line faint, wavy, very erect, reddish-white, 

 edged inside by a faint smoky cloud ; outside by a smoky- 

 chocolate cloud toward the apex ; hinder area clouded with 

 pale ochreous ; cilia shining purplish-grey. Hind wings 

 large, rounded behind ; glossy, pale smoky-brown with the 

 nervures darker, edged behind with a double darker line, 

 enclosing a pale yellow line ; cilia brownish white, very 

 glossy. Female similar, with quite simple antennte. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown ; the 

 apical region and costa pale orange-purple. Hind wings 

 smoky-white with a purple tinge over the front area. Body 

 yellow-brown ; legs shining yellowish-white, more reddish 

 in front. 



On the wing at the end of .July and beginning of August. 



