i8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



shire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, but common in 

 NorthumberLancl and Durham ; in Wales in Glamorganshire 

 and Pembrokeshire ; in Scotland in Roxburghshire and the 

 Edinburgh and Clyde districts ; and in Ireland in Galway 

 and Sligo. Abroad it is widely distributed through Central 

 and Southern Europe, Sweden, Livonia, Bithynia, and 

 Persia. 



5. S. incarnatana. Huh. ; amoenana, Kiib. — Expanse 

 I to I inch (12-19 mm.). Fore wings rosy white or brownish 

 white with the basal blotch, a slender imperfect central band, 

 and the apex, rosy brown. 



Antenna light brown ; palpi and head umbreous ; thorax 

 purplish brown dusted with pinkish white ; abdomen silky, 

 pale grey-brown. Fore wings not broad, costa folded and 

 nearly straight, apex bluntly angulated ; blight pinkish 

 white or rosy white, rippled with fine smoky grey lines ; 

 basal blotch umbreous, containing slender erect whitish lines, 

 its outer edge perpendicular ; central band narrow, ill- 

 defined, oblique, reddish brown, joining a triangular upright 

 black-brown dorsal spot ; apex broadly clouded with chest- 

 nut, in which are two pairs of white costal streaks, and some 

 white hind-marginal dots ; costa spotted with brown ; cilia 

 grey. Hind wings and their cilia smoky-white. Female 

 similar, but without the costal fold. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown with minute 

 white costal dots. Hind wings leaden white. 



Variable in colour and in size according to situation. On 

 the sandhills of the coast are found, in abundance, small 

 specimens having dark brown markings or a general tendency 

 to ochreous brown ; in other places where the sandhills are 

 more elevated thei'e are larger forms with clearer pink 

 colouring, and on some of our chalk-hills, in Surrej'" and 

 Essex, really brilliant pink specimens, almost as large as 

 8. Toborana. 



On the wing in July and August. 



