QUADRIFID^;. 



Curtis recorded ifc in error, and Stephens pointed out the 

 error and lta cause. It is a fine insect, larger than C. nupta, 

 and rather similar to it, but with broader fore win ff s more 

 dusted with black, and with thicker black lines, dilerently 

 placed There is no reason whatever to suppose that it has 

 ever been found in these islands. Its range abroad is 

 through part of Central Europe, Southern Europe, Northern 

 Africa, Asia Minor, with Syria, Armenia, and Central 



4. C. sponsa, Z.-Expanse 2* to 3 inches. Robust, fore 

 wings ample, pale grey-brown or olive-brown with transverse 

 Mack lines and bands of darker clouding, and a white or pale 

 cloud around the stigma. Hind wings rich purplish-crimson, 

 the central black stripe twice angulated in its upper portion 

 and curved below; hinder black band furnished with two 

 deep angular indentations; cilia white, spotted with black 



Antenna, of the male long and slender, faintly ciliated, 

 black-brown; palpx small, with a minute pointed apical 

 joint, yellowish-white with much black dusting outside ; eyes 

 black, prominent; head dark brown dusted with pale yellow • 

 thorax black-brown, dusted and barred, especially on the 

 collar, with golden-brown and white ; back crest short and 

 inconspicuous, but double, golden-brown tipped with black- 

 fascicles grey-brown; abdomen smooth and tapering, dusky' 

 golden-brown, the dorsal region covered with rather \oZ 

 black-brown and golden-brown hair-scales in ridges across 

 the segments, the middle portion sometimes being elevated 

 m minute crests; lateral tufts hardly perceptible ; anal tuft 

 compressed and almost pointed. Fore wings elongated and 

 of moderate breadth; costa gently arched; apex bluntly 

 angulated; hind margin strongly crenulated and faintly 

 curved ; dorsal margin rather full and tufted aW its edge 

 with raised scales; colour grey-brown, olive-brown, or yellow- 

 brown, much clouded by a dusting of black and black-brown • 

 basal line short, straight, but toothed, black, edged outwardly 



