STIGMONOTID.T^—DICHRORAMPHA. 259 



ganshire and in Scotland in the Edinburgh district, the 

 Clyde Valley, Dumbartonshire, Perthshire and Aberdeen- 

 shire. In Ireland apparently restricted to the coast, but found 

 near Dublin and Galway. Abroad common throughout the 

 temperate portions of Europe, and in Asia Minor. 



8. D. senectana, Qn. — Expanse 1 to ,5 iuch (12-16 mm.). 

 Fore wings uniform olive brown, dusted witli yellow, with 

 faintly lustrous lines, dorsal blotch, and ocellus; hind 

 margin shining. 



Antennae dark brown with paler rings ; palpi, head, and 

 thorax pale umbreous ; abdomen grey-bi'own. Fore wings 

 rather broad behind yet somewhat pointed, costa folded, 

 gently arched, apex angulated, hind margin oblique ; olive 

 brown dusted with minute yellow dots or atoms, and singu- 

 larly uniform in colour ; the middle area striped very faintly 

 with transverse shining leaden lines arising from costal 

 streaks, two of them angulated ; beyond are shorter and 

 whiter costal streaks ; along the hind margin is a row of 

 deep black dots followed b}'' a line of shining silver in the 

 brown cilia. Hind wings smoky whitish brown with white 

 cilia. Female similar, the costa not folded, the hind wings 

 smoky brown. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown, shading paler 

 to the dorsal margin. Hind wings leaden white. 



Very rarely variable, but a beautiful albino form taken in 

 Dorset is recorded by Mr. Eustace Banks^ 



On the wing from the end of May till July. 



Larva unknown. 



A species of quiet, retiring habits, to be taken Hying gently 

 in warm weather, about sunset, and seemingly not like its 

 allies, in the sunshine. Apparently restricted to the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of the sea, especially frequenting sea- 

 side underdiffs, where a little herbage grov/s on the fallen 



