34 ■ LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pupa subterranean ; aj)parently undescribed. 



The male moth flies rapidly over the heather in the daytime, 

 in hot weather, and more gently towards dusk ; the female 

 is more sluggish and very much more difficult to find. A 

 local species, and confined to large heaths. Abundant in the 

 New Forest, and also in the Isle of Wight, and along the 

 banks of the Solent — all in Hants. About the year 1850 it 

 was abundant near Farnham in Surrey, and more recently 

 has been found commonly on Chobham Heath in the same 

 county, but I have never seen it on the extensive heath 

 tracts of the southern portion of the county. Very local in 

 Berkshire and Dorset, but I have no further record in the 

 South of England. Formerly found in several mosses near 

 Preston, Lancashire, and quite recently at Meathrop Moss, in 

 the north of that county. Apparently not observed in Wales 

 or Scotland, but widely distributed on the heaths of Ireland 

 — Glengariff", Cork ; and common at Kinsale, Connemara, 

 Killarney, Galway, Westmeath, Koscommon, King's Count}', 

 and Armagh. Abroad it ranges through Western Europe, 

 South Sweden, Central and Southern Germany, Switzerland, 

 Galicia, Hungary, Spain, Armenia, and Palestine. 



Genus 16. SCORIA. 



Antennge simple ; palpi slender, projecting; head smooth; 

 thorax rough with long fluffy scales ; abdomen smooth, long 

 and slender ; fore wings trigonate, broad behind, blunt ; hind 

 wings very long, rather squared, markings of all the wings 

 most visible beneath. 



We have but one species. 



1. S. dealbata, L. ; lineata, Stand. Cat. — Expanse 11 to 

 If inch. All the wings creamy-white, the nervures, which are 

 blackened on the underside, showing clearly through ; body 

 white ; head and front of thorax tinged with yellow. 



Antennae of the male simple, minutely notched, faintly 



