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plenty in Scotland ! This migratory movement seems to 

 have been continued more recently, for the Rev. John 

 Bristowe of Belfast told me some years ago that it appeared 

 quite suddenly in the fir woods about Slieve Donard, and 

 elsewhere in the Mourne Mountains, in the County Down, 

 Ireland, having certainly been absent for many previous years, 

 and having apparently quite recently migrated thither. 



Abroad it abounds in suitable districts throughout Central 

 and Northern Europe, the North of Italy and Spain, Eastern 

 Siberia, and the mountain regions of Central Asia. 



3. F. pinetaria, H'dh. ; brunneata, Stand. Cat. — 

 Expanse f to 1 inch. All the wings dark tawny-red, indis- 

 tinctly cross-striped with tawny-brown ; more distinctly so in 

 the female. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with short, solid, rather 

 distinct, ciliated teeth, black-brown ; palpi pointed, brown 

 with the tips black ; head and thorax roughened with raised 

 scales, and having between them a noticeable ridge, red- 

 brown ; abdomen smooth, slender, reddish-brown dusted with 

 darker ; lateral and anal tufts very small. Fore wings not 

 broad ; costa gently arched throughout ; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin more evenly curved, and the dorsal 

 margin very slightly so ; tawny-red or reddish-chocolate, with 

 three slender, sinuous, transverse red-brown stripes, rather 

 obscure, and representing the first, central, and second lines ; 

 and beyond them a fourth, more sinuous, but often incomplete 

 or only indicated towards the costa ; discal spot very faint, 

 red-brown ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings rather long, 

 rounded, paler red-brown with a dusting of brighter orange- 

 red ; the three transverse complete lines of the fore wings 

 continued but more slender, dull red-brown ; hind margin 

 tinged with deeper chocolate-brown ; cilia similar but spotted 

 with a paler shade. Antennas of the female simple ; all the 

 wings of a paler red-brown, but the transverse stripes broader 

 and more noticeable, and thickened upon the costa, the fourth 



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