70 LEPWOPTERA. 



Its range abroad, supposing the records really to be applicable 

 to this species, is rather wide — Central Europe, Southern 

 Sweden, Livonia, Northern Italy, Corsica, the Balkan Penin- 

 sula, and Southern Eussia. 



3. C. lychnitis, fiambur. Expanse 1 J to If inch. Costa 

 of the fore wings flatly arched beyond the middle ; hind 

 margin crenulated and much hollowed above the anal angle ; 

 costal region striped with reddish-umbreous, dorsal margin 

 with red-brown j remaining space whitish-brown. Hind wings 

 white, shading to red-brown at the hind margin. 



Antennas of the male naked, simple, purple-brown ; palpi 

 short, moderately tufted, pale drab, striped outside with 

 blackish-brown ; head thickly and bluntly tufted in front, the 

 tufts divided into three sections by transverse channels, and 

 barred with purplish -brown, black, red-brown, and pale drab ; 

 the portion above the antennas also divided into tufts, red- 

 brown, a paler tuft at the base of each antenna ; collar very 

 large, peaked and divided, pale drab with two or three 

 extremely faint pale brown bars, and edged at the back with 

 umbreous ; shoulder-lappets very long, brownish-white dotted 

 with dark brown ; middle of thorax drab, almost filled up by 

 the large divided top and back crests, which are black-brown 

 with a faint frosting of white ; fascicles yellowish-white ; 

 abdomen pale yellowish-brown, the basal segments abundantly 

 clothed with yellowish-white hair-scales ; dorsal ridge orna- 

 mented with two or three conspicuous black-brown crests, and 

 behind these with a line of the same colour down the middle ; 

 lateral and anal tufts somewhat spreading. Fore wings 

 rather sinuous, costa straight to beyond the middle, then 

 flatly arched ; apex angulated ; hind margin strongly crenu- 

 lated and a little curved, but below the middle suddenly and 

 widely but rather flatly excavated ; anal angle well developed ; 

 dorsal margin faintly concave, very nearly straight ; colour 

 whitish-drab slightly shaded with reddish-brown ; costal 

 region broadly blackish-umbreous throughout, faintly shaded 



