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the Orkneys. Eespecting another specimen, taken by a 

 working man who found it sitting in a road in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Hawick, very careful inquiry has been made by 

 Mr. W. Grant Guthrie, and there appears to be no doubt of 

 the genuineness of the capture. These are all the Scottish 

 specimens of which I have any knowledge ; and there 

 appears to be no record for Wales. In Ireland a specimen 

 was captured in the year 1845 at Kingstown by the Rev. 

 Joseph Greene ; and another by Mr. D. C. Campbell at 

 Londonderry in 1896. Abroad it is found throughout 

 Central Europe, South Sweden, South Finland, Piedmont, 

 Southern Russia, and Tartary. 



2. C. nupta, L. — Expanse 2i to o£ inches. Large and 

 stout, fore wings broad and ample, pale greyish-brown dusted 

 with dark grey, and marbled with zigzag black cross-lines 

 and shades ; hind wings light scarlet-crimson, with a broad 

 curved black central stripe, and broader black marginal band 

 edged with white. 



Antennae of the male long, simple, minutely ciliated, 

 brown ; palpi rather short, curved up, broadly tufted, dark 

 brown, apical joint smooth and distinct ; eyes naked, promi- 

 nent, mottled with greenish-brown and black ; head smooth, 

 grey-brown dusted with white; thorax grey- brown shaded 

 with yellow-brown, the collar faintly barred with the same 

 and with smoky-black ; at the back is an obscure double 

 crest tinged with brown ; fascicles very slender, smoky- 

 brown ; abdomen smooth and tapering, pale grey-brown, 

 each segment edged with white ; lateral tufts minute ; anal 

 tuft compressed and pointed. Fore wings broad and ample ; 

 costa rather considerably arched, especially so toward the 

 apex, which is angulated ; hind margin very conspicuously 

 crenulated, nearfy straight, but curved off at the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin faintly curved ; colour grey or brownish-grey, 

 much dusted with black and faintly shaded with yellowish- 

 brown ; basal line angulated, incomplete, dusky-black ; first 



