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broken deep black line ; cilia black-brown with a wbite 

 dash. Hind wings smoky brown ; cilia white. Female 

 similar but larger. 



Underside of the fore wings pale lead colour, with white 

 costal dots. Hind wings leaden white. 

 On the wing in June. 



Larva apparently unknown. 



An exceedingly rare species, of which very little is known 

 here. The original specimen in the late Mr. H. Doubleday's 

 collection was said to have been taken in Devon. More 

 recently a few were taken by London collectors in the 

 Epping Forest division of Essex. These were of small size, 

 and their locality was kept secret. About the year 1878 

 Lord Walsingham took several specimens, of larger size and 

 more striking appearance, near Wicken Fen, Cambs. I know 

 of no more recent captures of this species in these Islands. 

 Abroad it is known to occur in Lower Austria, Gallicia, 

 Livonia, Siberia, and in Northern Africa. 



4. S. leplastriana, Ciirt. — Expanse \ to | inch (12- 

 16 mm.). Fore wings grey with numei^ous costal brown 

 and white streaks and a large dorsal pointed tooth-spot, 

 preceded and followed by white marbling. 



Antennee pale brown ; palpi dusky white ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen light brown. Fore wings trigonate, costa 

 straight, apex bluntly angvilated, hind margin straight and 

 oblique ; drab-grey, the base striped with white ; on the 

 middle of the dorsal margin is an erect obliquely curved and 

 pointed, tooth-shaped blotch, containing a brown streak ; 

 preceded and followed by olive-brown patches ; costa streaked 

 throughout with olive brown and white ; ocellus pale buff 

 edged on either side with lustrous white, and containing 

 several short black lines ; all the darker spaces and also the 

 hind margin dusted minutely with golden yellow ; cilia 



