STIGMONOTID^— COCCYX. igr 



Also found upou Pimis nordmanniana, and P. cephalonica. 



This species is especially attached to large trees of silver- 

 fir, growing here and there in the woods. It loves to sit at 

 a good height in the trees, and to fly about the outer 

 branches in bright sunshine in the afternoon, but is best 

 obtained when a rough wind has driven it to shelter in the 

 lower branches. Even then if beaten out it makes strenuous 

 efforts to return at once to the same branch, or a higher one. 

 Very local with us, but rather common in Norfolk, and to 

 be found in Snrre}', Hants, Dorset, Herefordshire, North 

 Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland and Northumberland ; 

 in Scotland in the Edinburgh district and in Perthshire ;. 

 in Ireland taken by Colonel Partridge near Enuiskillen, but 

 I have no record for Wales. Abroad it is known through 

 Central Europe, aud also in Greece. 



4. C. nigricana, R.-S. — Expanse h inch (12 mm.). Fore 

 wings somewhat ovate, black-brown, mottled all over with 

 faint silver-brown transverse irregular lines and markings. 



Antennas black-brown ; palpi and head drab-brown ; 

 thorax olive-brown ; abdomen darker. Fore wings mode- 

 rately broad, almost ovate ; costa folded at the base, but well 

 arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; black-brown abundantly 

 mottled with tawny-brown ; basal blotch just perceptible by 

 its squarely angulated blacker edge ; central band nearly 

 black but very obscure and ill-defined ; just before it on the 

 dorsal margin is a faint indication of a paler dorsal blotch ; 

 on the costa beyond are four pairs of faint yellowish-white 

 dots ; outer area a little mottled with tawny streaks ; apical 

 dot and hind marginal line deep black ; cilia smoky-black. 

 Hind wings and their cilia dark smoky-brown. Female 

 similar. 



Underside smoky-black ; costal dots of the fore wings 

 faintly white. 



On the wing in June and July, 



