62 LEFIDOPTERA. 



Oxfordshire find Cambridgeshire ; also found but far less 

 commonly in Cheshire and Lancashire and rarely in Durham 

 and Northumberland. In Wales it is common on slopes 

 of high sea sand-hills in Pembrokeshire and Glamorganshire ; 

 in Scotland in the Edinburgh district and along the East 

 coast to Aberdeenshire, also abundant in Perthshire and 

 found in the West in Renfrew, Dumbartonshire, Argyle and 

 Arran ; in Ireland on the slopes of the cliffs at Howth, 

 Dublin ; in Waterford, Galway, Sligo and on the extensive 

 coast sand-hills of Donegal. Abroad it is generally dis- 

 tributed over Europe, Asia Minor and Armenia. 



8. S. doubledayana, Bar. — Expanse \ inch (12 mm.). 

 Fore wings short and blunt, not broad, reddish white with 

 three ragged irregular cross bands. 



Antennte black-brown ; palpi and head tawny brown ; 

 thorax red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wings rather 

 short and blunt, costa arched, apex bluntly angulated, 

 almost squared ; hind margin rather straight and perpen- 

 dicular ; reddish white with rich chocolate markings ; basal 

 blotch rather large, its outer edge twice angulated ; central 

 band erect, having two pointed projections on its outer 

 margin ; followed by a rounded dorsal spot and above this 

 by a long oblique stripe, slender near the costa, broader in 

 i^s middle and to the hind margin; above it are several 

 oblique costal dots ; cilia whitish, tipped with chocolate. 

 Hind wings pale smoky brown ; cilia white. Female similar. 



Underside of all the wings glossy leaden brown. 



On the wing in July and the beginning of August. 



Lakva and Pita unknown — except that a note supposed 

 to have been furnished by M. Constant appears in M. 

 Raginot's copy of Staudinger'sList,that it feeds onLotus rectus. 

 For this information I am indebted to Lord Walsingham. 



This species was separated as distinct in the year 1871, 



