12 LEP1D0PTERA. 



There are also records of captures at Wells, Weston-super- 

 Mare, Somerset, and one at St. Albans. After this the insect 

 seems to have disappeared for some years, but in 1872 and 

 1873 both forms were taken near Lewes by Mr. J. H. A. 

 Jenner, and one at Darenth Wood, Kent ; and it is said to 

 have been obtained more recently in the New Forest. Yet 

 it must again have very nearly disappeared for twenty years, 

 until in 1894 a single specimen was secured in Devon. These 

 are all the instances of its occurrence in these Islands of 

 which I have any knowledge, and are restricted to the 

 counties of Sussex, Kent, Hants, Bucks, Herts, Somerset, 

 and Devon. Abroad it appears to be local, confined to 

 Central Europe and Northern Italy, but in some districts is 

 said to be plentiful. 



2. C. vaccinii, L — Expanse \\ to If inch. Fore wings 

 short, broad, with very blunt apex ; chestnut-brown marbled 

 and rippled with red or purple-red; base of the reniform 

 stigma usually filled by a black or brown-black spot ; hind 

 wings black-brown, often shaded with red ; cilia light purple- 

 red. 



Antennas of the male stout, simple, minutely ciliated, red- 

 brown ; palpi short, densely tufted, purple-red, apical tuft 

 obscure ; eyes naked, reticulated, black, lashes also black ; 

 head densely tufted, bright chocolate-red; thorax broad, 

 rather flattened, similar in colour but more purple-red at 

 the back, where also is a flat tuft ; fascicles pale brown, 

 tinged with purple-red ; abdomen much flattened and dilated 

 behind, purplish-red, clouded at the base with long paler 

 hair-scales ; lateral tufts conspicuous, upon a broad ridge ; 

 anal tuft rather short and squared, both orange-red. Fore 

 wings short, broad, excessively blunt ; costa nearly straight ; 

 apex obtusely angulated ; hind margin below it sloping 

 outward and much expanded, faintly crenulated and curved 

 back to the anal angle; dorsal margin a little rounded; 

 colour pale chestnut, chestnut-brown, or dark tawny, clouded 



