CKAMIUD^—SCHCENOBIUS. 1 3 1 



shire ; still in those of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 but exti'emely local; and in wet ditches along the coast of 

 Essex. It is also recorded from near Shoreham, Sussex ; 

 Hertfordshire; and from Burton-on-Trent, Leicestershire; 

 but not in the other portions of the United Kingdom. 

 Abroad in suitable places through Central Europe, Sweden, 

 Finland, Southern Russia, the trans-Caspian region, and 

 Eastern China. 



2. S. forficellus, Thunh. — Expanse of the male 1 to 1^ 

 inch, of female 1 to If inch. Fore wings elongated, mode- 

 rately narrow, blunt behind ; straw-colour with brown cloud- 

 ing toward thecosta, and a cloudy brown streak running into 

 the apex ; female fore wings more pointed, bright ochreous, 

 hind wings of both white. 



Antenna? of the male slender, rather coarsely ciliated, 

 whitish-brown ; palpii very long, slender, nearly straight, 

 pale brown, yellow-brown above ; head and thorax yellow- 

 brown ; abdomen long, slender, thickened beyond the middle, 

 whitish-drab. Fore wings rather narrow, costa gentlj' and 

 evenly arched ; apex angulated ; hind margin retuse and 

 nearly straight; straw colour, or pale yellowish-brown; 

 a faint black-brown dot lies near the base of the median 

 nervure, and two more indicate the position of the first line ; 

 discal spot a more distinct black dot, and obliquely below it 

 is another, placed near the dorsal margin ; beyond these a 

 faint — or distinct — brown, or black, streak runs from the 

 middle obliquely right into the apex of the wing ; cilia 

 whitish-brown. Hind wings narrow, flatly rounded behind, 

 white, faintly shaded, in the middle and toward the apex, 

 with brown ; cilia white. Female a little stouter, and the 

 fore wings decidedly longer, running to a long point at the 

 apex, and having the hind margin obliquely hollowed ; pale 

 ochreous, or pale red-brown, without markings, except the 

 discal dot, which is faintly brown ; hind wings long and 

 pointed, pure white. 



