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species, if not extinct here, and its habits are but little 

 known. Formerly it was taken near Plumstead, Erith, 

 Bexley and Darenth in Kent, and at Croydon in Surrey ; Mr. 

 C. W. Dale states that it was taken at Glanville's Wootton, 

 Dorset, in 1888 ; and Mr. Purdey reports it at Folkestone, 

 Kent, about 1899, but no certain British locality for it 

 seems to be now known. Abroad it inhabits Belgium, Ger- 

 many, Austria, Hungary, and Italy. 



16. S. regiana, Zell. — Expanse h to | inch (12-16 mm.). 

 Fore wings broad, with arched costa, rich orange black with 

 a large, rounded-up, dorsal orange blotch, and similar costal 

 dots. 



Antennae black ; palpi dusky white ; head and thorax 

 dark umbreous ; abdomen black-brown ; thorax and abdo- 

 men both rather thick. Fore wings moderately broad, costa 

 gently but decidedly arched, apex bluntly and squarely 

 angulated, hind margin perpendicular ; very glossy, and 

 densely scaled, brown-black with a distinct golden flush ; 

 middle portion of the dorsal margin occupied by a large 

 brilliant orange j'-ellow blotch, which has a slight angle on 

 its hinder edge, and is rounded above ; on the costa are five 

 or more white or yellow white dots, not sharply outlined ; 

 from two of these faint bluish streaks or lines are produced 

 which cross the wing; ocellus indicated by some faint 

 yellow dusting, and some bluish streaks ; cilia black-brown. 

 Hind wings glossy brown-black, with jjaler cilia. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden black, with whitish 

 costal dots and dorsal region. Hind wings leaden brown. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva dirty white ; head hazel brown with chestnut 

 sutures ; dorsal plate transparent yellow, clouded with 

 brown ; raised dots oval, smoky black with whitish edging, 

 anal plate with an oval smoky black patch. (Wilkinson.) 



