S TIGMONO TIDM—S TIGM ONO TA. 245. 



no other markino's ; cilia glossy brown-black. Hind wings 

 and cilia glossy smoky black. Female similar. 



Undersides of all the wings dark leaden brown ; costa 

 of fore wings dotted with white. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva apparently undescribed. The Rev. G. H. Rajmor 

 recorded a single moth from oak collected as food for other 

 larvaB. The late Mr. F. Bond stated that he had twice 

 reared it from shoots of hawthorn ; but its habits are still 

 obscure. 



The moth is found in open woods among undergrowth of 

 oak and other bushes ; over these it flies in the sunshine 

 from midday till near sunset ; also especially frequents open 

 spots where trees are few and far ajoart, broad wood paths 

 and other openings. Rarely seen away from woods, but in 

 them found in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Berks, 

 Bucks, Herts, Oxfordshire, Essex, Norfolk, Herefordshire, 

 Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Westmoreland. Not recorded from 

 Scotland nor Wales, and in Ireland only by Mr. Kane at 

 Killarney. Abroad it is widely distributed through Central 

 and Southern Europe, Sweden, Livonia and Eastern Siberia. 



18. S. roseticolana, ZcU.\ germarana, Willi. Stn. — 

 Expanse \ inch (12-14 mm.). Fore wings oblong, even in 

 width, dark purple brown or rosy black, without markings. 



Antennee purplish brown ; palpi light brown ; head, 

 horax, and abdomen blackish brown. Fore wings of rather 

 even width, not narrow ; costa flatly arched, apex bluntly 

 angulated, hind margin very little oblique ; dark purple 

 brown without markings except some very obscure paler 

 costal dots ; cilia smoky brown. Hind wings dark brown, 

 cilia dull white. Female similar. 



Undersides of all the wings pale leaden brown, without 

 markinofs. 



