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in this country. In the cabinet of Dr. P. B. Mason the fore 

 wing mentioned by Haworth, and found by the Duchess of 

 Portland, is still in existence, and in good condition ; and he 

 has besides two specimens from the cabinet of the late Mr. 

 Edwin Shephard recorded as taken at Windsor, and one 

 labelled "Taken in a clover field near Reading." Mr. C. W. 

 Dale states that he possesses, in the collection of his late 

 father, an example " which appears to be a hundred years 

 old, damaged and without an abdomen ; it came out of the 

 collection of old Dr. Lathom." 



The above localities are principally in Middlesex and Berks. 

 Abroad it is found in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, 

 Northern Italy and Sweden ; also in Asia Minor. 



This appears most distinctly to indicate a species which, so 

 far as this country is concerned, has died out since the begin- 

 ning of the present century. 



2. C. marginata, Fab. ; umbra, Stand. Cat. — Expanse 

 1£ to 1^ inch. Fore wings orange-yellow ; nervures, lines, 

 and edges of the stigmata rust-red ; space beyond the second 

 line frosted with purple. Hind wings pale yellow, with a large 

 black central spot, aud a broad black hind-marginal band 

 edged outside with orange-red. 



Antennas of the male simple, regularly ciliated with minute 

 tufts of white bristles, otherwise orange-brown ; palpi rather 

 short, closely tufted, tawny ; eyes naked, leaden black ; head 

 thickly but smoothly tufted in front, and with a small pro- 

 jecting tuft above, tawny ; thorax of the same colour, rather 

 smooth but the collar a little pointed forward in the middle ; 

 back crest obscure, tipped with chestnut ; fascicles pale 

 yellow ; abdomen orange-brown, paler at the base, the long 

 hair-scales pale yellow, but on the dorsal ridge of the first 

 segment gathered into a loose crest, coloured chestnut at the 

 tip ; on one or two more segments a clouding of similar 

 colour suggests an additional crest ; lateral tufts spreading ; 

 anal tuft rather compressed. Fore wings broad behind and 



