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not seem to have been noticed in Wales or in other hill 

 districts until Yorkshire is reached, but it is not rare among 

 the hills of Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland ; 

 and in Scotland in Perthshire, Moray, and Aberdeenshire \ 

 hence I suspect that it will some day be found in other of 

 our hill districts. Abroad it inhabits Central and Southern 

 Europe, South Scandinavia, and Asia Minor. 



2. S. orobana, Tr.. — Expanse | to | inch (12-15 mm.). 

 Fore wings rather blunt, dark olive-brown with a thickened, 

 white, clubbed, dorsal marking and conspicuous costal dots. 



Antennae dark l)rown ; palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen 

 pale olive-brown, rather robust. Fore wings rather blunt,, 

 costa very slightly arched, apex bluntly and squarely 

 angulated, hind margin almost perpendicular ; olive- 

 brown, paler at the base, elsewhere, finely dusted with 

 yellow dots ; in the middle of the dorsal margin is a partially 

 erect, thick, creamy white curved blotch, distinctly clubbed 

 at the apex ; on the costal margin a crowded series of five 

 pairs of creamy white dots ; ocellus not large, edged with 

 blueish silver, and containing a cluster of tiny black lines ; 

 cilia olive-brown. Hind wings pale smoky brown with the 

 base and cilia pearly white. Female similar, but with dark 

 hind wings. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden-black with the disk 

 and costal dots whitish. Hind wings as on the upper side. 



On the wing in July. 



Larva when full-fed dark yellow with a decided 

 brown tinge ; head and dorsal plate nearly black, spots 

 prominent. 



August and September in the pods of Vicia sylvatica ; 

 eating the unripe seeds, and when one pod is exhausted 

 attacking another. When full-fed forsaking the seeds to 

 spin a tough cocoon among rubbish on the ground. Feeding 



