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Oxfordshire and Bucks, also in the Eastern Counties, and in 

 the west from Somerset to Lancashire, but ax^parently 

 almost absent from the Midland Counties. Very local in 

 Yorkshire and Durham, also in some parts of Scotland, as 

 the Edinburgh district, Roxburghshire, Perthshire, and the 

 Clyde Valley, and not wholly absent from the Orkney Isles. 

 Probably well distributed in Wales, but ray only record is 

 in Pembrokeshire. In Ireland it is widely distributed, being 

 recorded from Kerry and Connemara, the Dublin district, 

 Enniskillen, Sligo, and Derry. Abroad common throughout 

 Central and Northern Europe, including Lapland, and in 

 North America, in California, and the Hudson's Bay territory. 



5. S. augustana, iT/t^.— Expanse | inch (12 mm.). 

 Fore wings narrow, pointed, grey-brown, the markings 

 strikingly similar to those of >S'. cruciana. 



Antennee slender, whitish-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 drab-brown; abdomen leaden-brown. Fore wings narrow, 

 especially so behind ; costa not folded but its edge slightly 

 raised, rarely straight ; apex bluntly angulated ; pale olive- 

 brown shading to white along the costa ; basal blotch large, 

 reddish olive-brown, its margin very oblique ; central band 

 parallel with the margin, dull red, almost attaining the anal 

 angle; apical spot large, red-brown, and the hind margin 

 edged with the same ; cilia white, tinged with olive-brown. 

 Hind wings dark smoky brown ; cilia tipped with white. 

 Female similar. 



Undersides of all the wings lead-colour; costa of fore 

 wings edged with white. 



Variable in colour, many specimens being much darkened 

 from suffusion of smoky brown ; others, more rarely, equally 

 suffused with rust red. Some specimens have the markings 

 more or less edged with silvery lines, but our native specimens 

 show this far less than those from the Continent. 



On the wing in June and July, and in a second generation, 



