322 LEPIDOPTERA. 



a good series of specimens having been reared from larvif 

 found in 1879 or 1880 at Leiston, Suffolk, by the Hon. Mrs. 

 Carpenter. In the same year — 1898 — Mr. W. Purdey of 

 Folkestone discovered the insect there — on the coast of Kent. 

 He says, " I watched this species very closelj' for nearly a 

 fortnight in the middle of July. It was on the wing from 

 about 8 P.M. till dark, flying over alder and privet bushes, 

 possibly attracted by the blossoms of the latter. It struck 

 me as being quite distinct from the other species and having 

 different habits." So far as I know, these two counties — 

 Suffolk and Kent — are as yet its only known localities in the 

 whole world ; and the sudden appearance of so well marked 

 a species, totally new, in localities which for many years have 

 been exhaustively worked is, to sa3- the least, remarkable. 



5. L. smeathmanniana, Fah. — Expanse \ to f inch 

 (12-15 mm.j. Fore wings pale yellow, with two narrow 

 transverse stripes both broken into sections. 



Antennte brown ; palpi, head, and thorax pale yellow ; 

 abdomen black-brown dusted with pale yellow. Fore wings 

 rather narrowly triangular ; costa nearly straight ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin oblique and nearly straight ; 

 primrose-yellow, clouded with pale buff and having two very 

 oblique, fragmentary, transverse pale chocolate stripes, the 

 first broken at the medium nervure, but faced by a spot on 

 the costa, the second similarly abbreviated but faced by a 

 paler costal spot ; cilia yellowish white. Hind wings smoky- 

 white, darker toward the outer margin, cilia paler. Female 

 very similar, a little stouter, and with the markings slightly 

 more distinct. 



Underside of the fore wings leadenblack ; cilia yellowish 

 white, with a neat intersecting leaden line ; hind wings 

 leaden-white. 



On the wing in May and June, and in a second generation 

 in August. 



Larva short, plump, thickest in the middle ; head shining 



