14 LEPID OP TERA . 



2. S. roborana, Schiff., Tr.; cynosbana, Fah. (?). — 

 Expanse | to | inch (16-22 mm.). Fore wings elongated 

 and rather even in width, apex sharp ; white or pinkish 

 white dusted with grey or brown ; basal blotch and anal and 

 apical spots reddish brown or umbreous. 



AntennfB notched, ciliated, brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 dull umbreous ; abdomen whitish-brown. Pore wings elon- 

 gated, of very even width ; costa folded narrowly and evenly, 

 apex bluntly angulated ; white, much sprinkled with small 

 grey or rosy brown clouds ; basal blotch large, its margin 

 oblique, and nearly straight except that it is narrowlj^ and 

 faintly produced along the costa ; near the anal angle is 

 a brown dorsal triangular spot and above it some black dots; 

 the large white area above and around it neatly stippled with 

 lines of minute brown clouds; apex clouded with chestnut 

 brown and grey; costa rather irregularly and sparsely dotted 

 with brown ; cilia grey. Hind wings and their cilia smoky 

 white. Female similar, but without the costal fold. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky black, with four pairs of 

 white dots on the costa. Hind wings white, with the apex 

 smoky black. 



Usually rather constant in colour, but on the coast among 

 the little burnet-rose it is often very prettily tinged and 

 stippled with pink and grey. 



On the wing from June till August. 



Larva short and obese, tapering almost from the middle to 

 the extremities; head small, light brown; dorsal plate black ; 

 anal plate very small, also black ; body shining brown, or 

 liver-colour, semi-transpai'ent, with the intestinal canal 

 visible. 



End of May and June, in the young shoots of rose — both 

 wild and cultivated — drawing and twisting the leaves tightly 

 together, and eating out the heart, and also the young 

 buds. 



Pita lio'ht brown. In the larval habitation. 



