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lantern, both sexes acknowledging the atti-action, though 

 not in an equal degree, the males coming in the greater 

 numbers. Formerly to be found in the outer suburbs of 

 London ; still tolerably common throughout the Southern, 

 Eastern and Western Counties of England, and in some 

 parts of the Midlands, to Yorkshire and Lancashire, but 

 apparently not further north. In Wales it seems scarcely to 

 have been noticed, except rarely in Pembrokeshire. In Ire- 

 land it is recorded from the Counties of Dublin, Cork, Kerry, 

 Galway, Mayo, Sligo, and Donegal. Abroad it is of general 

 occurrence through Central Europe, the Northern half of 

 Italy, and in the North, the West, and the South-east of 

 Russia. 



3. S. mucronellus, Miiff. — Expanse | to 1 inch 

 (20-25 mm.). Fore wings narro^v, pale red-brown, with a 

 yellowish-white stripe along the costa, and a dark red-brown 

 stripe edging it beneath ; hind wings white. Female with 

 paler, narrower, and more pointed fore wings. 



Antenna) of the male simple, rather short, pale brown ; 

 palpi very long, straight, porrected, pointed, light brown ; 

 head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen whitish-brown. Fore 

 wings elongated, rather narrow ; costa gently arched ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin oblique, nearly straight ; 

 colour pale reddish-brow-n ; along the costa is a broad 

 yellowish-white stripe from base to apex, edged beneath by 

 a darker red-brown or black-brown stripe, w'hich shades off 

 below into the ground colour ; in the dorsal area there are 

 often faint brown lines on the nervures ; extreme hind 

 margin dotted with black ; cilia pale brown. Hind wings 

 rather narrow, with the hind margin flatly curved, silky 

 white ; cilia white. Female different, the fore wings narrower 

 and more pointed and falcate, and the hind margin very 

 oblique ; colour usually rather paler, but the stripes as in 

 the male. Hind wings more narrow and pointed ; white. 

 Less longf, white in both sexes. 



