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ia any one place. It sits during the day in bushes, shrubs, 

 low trees such as hollies and yews, or very often in the 

 hedges of lanes, or those bordering woods, and is ordinarily 

 disturbed by the beating-stick when this is used for collecting 

 species of other groups. Dr. Buchanan AVhite says, how- 

 ever, that in Scotland it does not fly so readily in the daytime 

 as other species, and is there best collected by searching at 

 night with a lantern upon dry banks. Eather a common 

 species in all the southern, eastern, and western Counties 

 of England, and in the southern Midlands, apparently scarce 

 elsewhere in the Midlands, but occurring at Cannock Chase, 

 Staffordshire ; also in Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, 

 and Yorkshire. Probably distributed through many parts 

 of Wales, since it is recorded from Denbighshire and I found 

 it not uncommonly in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland it seems 

 scarce, jet is recorded from near Edinburgh and elsewhere 

 in Midlothian, Lanarkshire, Dumbartonshire, Perthshire, 

 Aberdeenshire, Inverness, Moray, and Eoss-shire. In Ireland 

 the records are few and wide apart — Cork and Kerry, Antrim 

 and Tj-rone. Abroad it ranges through Northern and Central 

 Europe, Italy, the North of Spain, the Balkan States, 

 Bithj^nia, Pontus, and Armenia. 



15. C. myellus, Hiih. — Expanse | to 1 inch (22^25 mm.). 

 Fore wings rather broad, rich orange-red, with the dorsal 

 margin paler; stripe pearly white, very narrow at the base, in- 

 creasing gradually in width, and cut into three portions, the 

 third very narrow. Hind wings faintly smoky white. 



Antennaj of the male simple, reddish-brown, faintly barred 

 toward the tips with white ; palpi moderately long, white 

 above, brown beneath, the maxillary pair distinctly white ; 

 head and middle of thorax snowy white, sides of the latter 

 pale yellow-brown ; abdomen glistening ashj^-white. Fore 

 wings rather broad, the costa very gently arched ; apex 

 squared ; hind margin curved, but verj- little oblique, and 

 the anal angle fully formed ; colour chestnut-red, shading 



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