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briskly in the sunshine, and is a very pretty object as it 

 settles suddenly in a sunny spot just before one's eyes. 

 Found occasionally in the suburbs of London, and very 

 common in suitable places, particularly upon the chalk, and 

 on the coasts, throughout the eastern southern counties and to 

 Oxfordshire, also in the west to Gloucestershire, Monmouth- 

 shire, and Herefordshire, and formerly recorded by the late 

 Mr. T. Wilkinson on the coast of Yorkshire ; in Wales I have 

 found it in Pembrokeshire, but find no records for Ireland. 

 In Scotland it occurs in Renfrew, and Argyle, including 

 Arran. Abroad it has a considerable range, including all 

 Central and Southern Europe, Sweden, Finland, Livonia, 

 Armenia, Asia Minor, and Northern Persia. 



4. A. baumanniana, ScMff. ; hartmanniana, Stand. 

 Cat. — Expanse male f to f inch (18-22 mm.) ; female -J- inch 

 (16 mm.). Fore wings long, pale dull yellow, with rich red- 

 brown, oblique and jagged markings, which are dark and 

 well defined. 



Antennas ciliated, black-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 red-brown, shaded with paler ; abdomen blackish-brown. 

 Fore wings elongated, costa very flatly arched, apex bluntly 

 rounded, hind margin oblique and rather straight ; dull pale 

 ochreous dusted with red-brown and silvery white ; basal 

 blotch red-brown divided by white, but ill-defined and cloudy; 

 central band rich red-brown or chocolate, divided, the lower 

 portion very oblique ; beyond is a large similar costal cloud, 

 and some small ones lie above the anal angle ; these markings 

 rich and sharply distinct; cilia dull yellow, spotted with 

 red-brown. Hind wings ample, dark smoky brown ; cilia 

 whiter. Female rather smaller, but stouter, and with the 

 markings darker. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky leaden-black ; costa 

 beyond the middle dotted with yellow. Hind wings leaden 

 white. 



Somewhat variable in size ; specimens from the Hebrides 



