30 LEPIDOPTERA. 



taken at Dublin — even so close to the city as Glasnevin 

 Cemetery — in Wicklow, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Westmeatb, 

 Mayo ; Tullamore abundantly ; Galway, Sligo, Fermanagh, 

 Cavan, and Louth, and often commonly. 



Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe and the 

 temperate portions of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, 

 Southern Russia, and the mountainous regions of Central 

 Asia. 



3. X. conformis, Schiff.; furcifera, Stand. Cat. — 

 Expanse H to If inch. Fore wings narrow, but little 

 broader behind, blunt, grey-black marbled with deep black ; 

 a yellow streak at the base, an orange spot in the reniform 

 stigma, and a row of red-black spots before the hind margin. 

 Hind wings reddish-white shading off to smoky-black. 



Antennas of the male thick, minutely notched and deli- 

 cately ciliated, black-brown ; palpi short, very broadly tufted, 

 purple-black ; apical joint short ; eyes black, with black 

 lashes, which are long and so curled as almost to meet; 

 head densely and prominently tufted, in two pairs of pro- 

 jecting points, purple-black ; thorax squared, with distinctly 

 raised and projecting epaulets at the shoulders ; collar dark 

 purple-brown, edged slenderly with white, pushed forward in 

 the middle by a tall, conical, but slightly divided, purple- 

 black crest ; remainder of thorax deep black ; back crest 

 short and divided ; fascicles pale smoky-brown ; abdomen 

 short and broad, purple-brown ; third segment decorated 

 with a large conspicuous black dorsal crest, and the following 

 segment with a more prostrate brown one ; lateral tufts 

 rather spreading; anal tufts short, flat, and squared. Fore 

 wings rather long and narrow, but a little broader behind ; 

 costa arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin full and 

 rounded, crenulated, and close to the anal angle slightly 

 hollowed; dorsal margin very slightly concave; deep rich 

 shining slate-black ; from the base arises a deep black streak, 

 forked at a short distance, edged on its upper side by a 



