. B OA RMIDAL- SCO DION A 27 



Midlands and Eastern Counties, perhaps being, in some of 

 the more sheltered woods in the Midland Counties, more 

 plentiful than in southern localities. I well remember, as a 

 boy, the pleasure I experienced in finding this pretty species 

 in plenty, sitting, along with Abraxas vJmaia, in wood paths 

 at Benthall Edge, Salop. Northward, more local or more 

 scarce, it extends to Cumberland and Northumberland ; also 

 throughout Wales, both north and south, being by no means 

 rare in the lanes in Pembrokeshire. In Scotland it is found 

 in the Solway and Clyde districts, Argyleshire, Aberdeen- 

 shire, Kincardineshire, Moray, West Ross, and the Orkneys ; 

 and in Ireland in Wicklow, Kerry, Gal way, Sligo, Monaghan, 

 Cavan, Tyrone, Antrim and Derry. Abroad it has an exten- 

 sive range through Central Europe, all the temperate portions 

 of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Bulgaria, the Ural 

 mountain districts, Tartary, the mountain regions of Central 

 Asia, Corea, Jajsan, and throughout North America, appa- 

 rently, from Anticosti to Vancouver, and from South Carolina 

 to California. 



Genus 14. SCODIONA. 



Antennas of the male shortly pectinated ; palpi minute ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen smooth, not very slender ; fore 

 wings elongated, the tip produced ; hind wings rather narrow 

 and elongated towards the apex. Female stouter and much 

 smaller. 



We have but one species, 



1. S. belg-iaria, i>orA:. ; favillacearia, ZTh^. — Expanse, 

 male Ih inch, female 1|, Fore wings long with straight 

 costa and expanded hind margin ; white dusted with grey 

 and having two transverse lines and a spot reddish-black ; 

 hind wings very similar. Female smaller, greyer. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with slender solid oblique 

 teeth, which are fully ciliated, and the two rows placed near 

 each other, brown ; palpi of the same colour, very small and 

 slender ; head smooth, pure white ; thorax rather loosely 



