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Sussex, Dorset, Essex, Berks, Herefordshire, Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumberland ; also in North 

 Wales and throughout Scotland to the Orkneys ; in Ireland 

 found on the Wicklow mountains and in Antrim. Abroad 

 plentiful on the hills of Central and Northern Europe, and 

 of the North of Ital}'. 



8. A. lundana, FuIk ; badiana, Hdn. — Expanse | to f 

 inch (12-16 mm.). Eore wings acuminate, the apex sharply 

 hooked, bright red-brown with a stronglj'- arched narrow 

 jellow-white stripe from the base, along the costa and across 

 to the doi'sal margin. 



Antenna3 black-brown ; palpi white ; head and shoulder- 

 lappets brownish-white ; thorax red-brown ; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wings moderately broad, costa gently arched, 

 apex sharply hooked, hind margin retuse ; cream colour, or 

 rather a narrow stripe of this colour, commencing at the base 

 and running along the costa, forms a high arch reaching to 

 the middle of the dorsal margin, and enclosing a large choco- 

 late-brown dorsal blotch ; beyond this arch the hinder area is 

 soft pale chocolate, daintily zigzagged with slender silvery 

 lines ; costa decorated with short white streaks; cilia yellowish 

 white. Hind wings and their cilia pale smoky brown. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden black ; costal streaks 

 and cilia pale yellow. Hind wings leaden white. 



On the wing m May and June, and as a second generation 

 in August. 



Larva transparent yellow, with a green dorsal vessel, and 

 white, glossy, hair-bearing raised dots ; head small, pale 

 yellow, with two spots ; dorsal plate somewhat smaller and 

 similarly marked. (Gartn.) 



May and June and also in September and October, on 

 clover, Lotus eorniridatus, and various species of Vicia, 

 Lathyrus^ Orohus and T'ri/o/Miwi— perhaps on all vetches ; 



