92 LEPIDOPTERA. 



found, though never very plentifully, throughout the South 

 of Eno'land ; less so in the Eastern and Western Counties; 

 very locally and rarely in the Midlands ; and here and there 

 throughout the more northern counties, and through Wales. 

 In Scotland it seems to be not very rare at Hawick, and to 

 be found at Wigtown, in Ayrshire, Argyleshire, Aberdeen- 

 shire, Kincardineshire, Inverness-shire, Moray, Ross, and 

 Sutherland, and also in the Orkneys. In Ireland it used not 

 to be very scarce about Powerscourt and elsewhere in the 

 County of Wicklow, and has been found at Sligo and Ennis- 

 killen, and in Westmeath and Tyrone. Abroad it extends 

 through Central Europe, Northern Italy. Sicily, Finland, 

 Livonia, the Balkan States, and Southern Russia. 



3. S. illunaria, Huh. ; bilunaria, Btavd. Cat. — Ex- 

 panse, first brood, H to If inch ; second brood, 1 jto H inch. 

 Fore wings elongated, bluntly elbowed behind; pale dull 

 purplish-drab, shaded and clouded with pale red and purplish- 

 grey ; lines red-brown, the central distinct, discal lunule 

 absent or very obscure ; a dull red blotch lies at the apex. 

 Hind wings pale purplish-brown. 



Antennas of the male pectinated with short slender 

 incurved teeth of a black-brown colour, shaft light brown ; 

 palpi rather projecting, dark tawn}- ; eyes shining black; 

 head rough, hoary-brown; collar red-brown, more hoary in 

 the middle ; remainder of the thorax purplish-brown, downy 

 with long raised soft scales, hinder portion paler ; abdomen 

 comparatively slender, smooth, purplish-brown ; lateral tufts 

 small; anal tuft short and pointed. Fore wings elongated, 

 pointed, rather retuse ; costa arched at the base, slight!}' 

 hollowed before the apex, which is acute ; hind margin below 

 it faintly hollowed and minutely crenulated to the middle, 

 there prominently angulated, concave beneath this, but the 

 anal angle prominent ; dorsal margin ciliated, nearly straight ; 

 colour pale reddish-drab, much dusted with purplish-red or 

 dull red ; at the base of the costa is an ovate golden-chestnut 



