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transverse line, running down by the ocellus and turning 

 outward at its lower angle, towards the anal angle ; ocellus 

 furnished with several short black lines ; and from it two 

 thin white dashes pass through the otherwise black cilia. 

 Hind wings smoky brown with faintly white cilia. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy pale lead colour ; costal 

 dots, and two hind marginal dashes, white. Hind wings 

 leaden white. 



On the wing in June. 



Larva unknown. 



This moth is taken only among fir trees — usually, I think, 

 Scotch fir — but is obscure and not well known. It was 

 originally taken by Kichard Weaver in Scotland, probably in 

 Perthshire, but was mixed with S. coniferana in collections. 

 The late Mr. H. Doubleday, who recognised its distinctness, 

 thought it to be /S'. fissana, Froel. — which, however, has the 

 pale dorsal streak double — and Dr. Rebel, in the new edition 

 of Staudinger's List, places it as a synonym of S. pactolana, 

 Zell. — to which our insect bears no resemblance. So far as 

 ■we at present know it is found only in Perthshire, Moray, 

 and Aberdeenshire, in these Islands, and abroad it does not 

 seem to have been recognised. 



6. S. coniferana, Batzc. — Expanse | to | inch (12-16 

 mm.). Fore wings narrower than in S. cognatana, yet very 

 similar ; but the transverse slender white line is bent inward 

 before the anal angle. 



Antennge black ; palpi, head, and thorax black-brown ; 

 abdomen paler brown. Fore wings not very narrow, costa 

 flatly arched, apex decidedly angulated, hind margin 

 oblique and faintly curved ; brownish black ; in the middle 

 of the dorsal margin is an erect double white streak, which 

 is elono-ated to meet a similar extension of a faint double 



