48 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, 

 Durham, aud Northumberland ; also in Scotland in Fife and 

 elsewhere in the Edinburgh district, Perthshire, and appar- 

 ently even in Moray ; bnt I have no record for Ireland or 

 Wales. Abroad it is found in many parts of Central and 

 Northern Europe, and Mr. E. Meyrick records it in North 

 America. 



2. M. schulziana, Fah. — Expanse f to 1 inch (18- 

 25 mm.). Fore wings rich red-brown or crimson-brown, 

 with numerous silvery -white transverse lines and streaks, 

 and a central round white dot. 



Antennae rather short, black ; palpi and head chestnut- 

 red ; thorax similar, bnt the shoulder-lappets white ; abdoDieu 

 black, barred behind with white. Fore wings rather broad, 

 costa gently arched, apex bluutly angulated, hind margin 

 oblique ; rich red-brown, often almost crimson ; with 

 numerous short transverse silvery-white markings dis- 

 posed in three series of irregular and looped fragmentary 

 lines, the outermost series conQected with the hind margin ; 

 these lines originate in twin short streaks on the costa ; 

 cilia white chequered with red-brown. Hind wings and 

 their cilia smoky white. Female similar but smaller, with 

 darker hind wings. 



Underside of the fore wings black-brown ; costa lightly 

 dotted with yellowish geminated streaks; apex aud hind 

 margin with repeated series of curved similar dotted lines. 

 Hind wings yellowish-white. 



Variable in size — specimens from Scotch aud Irish moun- 

 tain districts sometimes are very large, but the size seems to 

 diminish towards the tops of the mountains. Those from 

 the very isolated locality — Woolmer Forest — in Hants, 

 though rather smaller, are especially bright in colour and 

 markings. 



On the wing from the end of June till August. 



