SERICORIDJE—STEGANOPTYCHA. 8 1 



known to occur in Scotland, and there scarce, but more 

 recently it has become comparatively common, and has 

 made its way southward. This was lirst noticed in 1882, 

 when it was found in Norfolk by Mr. E. A. Atmore. More 

 recently it has been taken at Box Hill and elsewhere in 

 Surrey, in Kent, and Hants ; northward also in Lancashire, 

 Cumberland, and Northumberland. In Scotland it is dis- 

 tributed over the Edinburgh district, Perthshire, Renfrew, 

 Dumbartonshire, and other joarts of the Clyde district, and 

 also through Moray and Aberdeenshire. I know of no 

 other localities for it in these Islands. Abroad it is found in 

 the South of France, Holland, Germany, Galicia, Livonia, 

 and the South of Sweden. 



2. S. obtusana, ^«?^.'.— Expanse l inch (12 mm.) Fore 

 wings rich soft velvety chestnut-brown with a long curved 

 grey central stripe and a similar spot over the anal angle. 



Antennae red-brown; palpi drab; head and thorax 

 orange-brown ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wings exceed- 

 ingly pretty ; costa arched, not folded ; apex blunt, hind 

 margin filled out ; soft rich chestnut or orange-brown with 

 grey shading ; between the basal blotch, which is large and 

 extended on the dorsal margin, and the central band and 

 apical space, is a slender curved grey central stripe, which 

 runs from the base along the costa to the middle, and then 

 crosses to the anal angle ; above this angle is a grey-brown 

 ocellus, dusted with black ; on the costa toward the apex are 

 some white dots, and in the apex a minute white ring ; cilia 

 white and brown. Hind wings with their cilia smoky brown. 

 Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden-brown, the costa 

 dotted with white. Hind wings leaden-white. 



On the wing from the end of May till July. 



Larva unknown. 



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