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with a reddish anal tuft; antennse in the male strongly 

 pectinated, in the female long and filiform. Fore wings liver 

 colour, more or less mixed with yellow or brownish -red, the 

 yellow usually more distinct in the stigmata and on the costa ; 

 transverse lines only visible as a few black dots ; orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata large, the former pale; claviform 

 stigma a black dot; before the two upper are usually two 

 dark red-brown, rather triangular spots; subterminal line 

 yellowish ; margin with blackish-brown dashes. Hind wings 

 yellowish, dusted with blackish-brown, cilia yellow. All vary 

 extremely in distinctness of markings; in many, females 

 especially, all the markings run together, and consequently 

 some might easily be taken for another species. Some 

 specimens are but little larger than Miana strigili^r These 

 were obtained on the Eiesengeburge, a range of mountains in 

 Silesia, and some of them were taken flying in the daytime or 

 sitting upon flowers. The description seems to me undoubt- 

 edly to refer to the small blunt-winged, hill-frequenting forms, 

 except that the antennte cannot be said to be strongly 

 pectinated. This view is confirmed by Freyer's figure, also 

 by that of Duponchel, and by Heinemann's description of 

 confiua, each of which obviously agrees with the hill form, 

 while the specimens in the National Collection, from Silesia, 

 are all of the same variety. There are in the same collection, 

 under the same name— co7i/?«r— two specimens which agree 

 well in shape with the peculiar Shetland specimens, but are 

 of a much paler colour. These were obtained more than forty 

 years ago from Herr Becker, and although provided with a 

 number which establishes this, have no label indicating the 

 locality whence received nor the captor, but it may be safely 

 assumed that they were obtained on the Continent, and that 

 other localities for this variety exist, and only require searching 

 out. Iceland has been suggested as the home of this form 

 as well as Norway, but all the Icelandic specimens of which I 

 have any knowledge, whether taken by Dr. Staudinger or Dr. 

 P. B. Mason, are clearly of the more typical confiua form, as 



