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like a faded and worn variety thereof. But since its fore 

 wings are a little narrower than in that species and their apices 

 sharper and more hooked, and since, though flying along with 

 that species, no intermediate varieties seem to occur, and it 

 is distinctly and very fully double-brooded while that species 

 Jias but one generation in the year, there seems to be little 

 reason for doubting its distinctness. Common in the fens, 

 and abundant in the boggy heaths of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambs, 

 and Hants, also in the New Forest, Hants ; and found more 

 sparingly in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Dorset, Berks, and York- 

 shire ; also in Scotland in Aberdeenshire and Sutherlandshire. 

 ,So far as I know this is the extent of its range in these 

 Islands ; abroad it is found in Holland, Jutland, Germany, 

 Livonia, and Lapland. 



6. A. comptana, Frod. — Expanse J inch (12-14 mm.). 

 Fore wings very narrow, red-brown with a darker angulated 

 basal blotch and central band. 



Antennae purplish brown ; palpi whitish brown, head and 

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

 with the costa but little arched, apex bent over into a blunt 

 hook, hind margin refuse ; chocolate-red ; costa from the 

 base to near the middle grey-bi'own, with oblique chocolate 

 streaks; basal blotch large, rounded above but not reaching 

 the costa, red-brown ; from the middle of the costa an oblique 

 slender grey-brown stripe runs to the dorsal margin, and 

 from it a double similar line points toward the apex ; outer 

 portion of the costa broadly dashed with pairs of oblique 

 shining whitish streaks ; cilia dusky white, intersected by a 

 chocolate shade. Hind wings and their cilia smoky white. 

 Female similar or with the markings more suffused — and 

 confused. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown ; of the hind 

 leaden white. 



On the wing from April to the beginning of June, and in 

 a second generation in August and September. 



