236 LEPIDOPTERA. 



mountain districts, principally in France, Spain, Sardinia and 

 Corsica. 



The general range of the species is throughout great 

 part of Central Europe, the more temperate portions of 

 Northern Europe, and North Italy with Sardinia ; also Asia 

 Minor, Armenia, and the mountain regions of Central Asia. 



3. D. cucubali, Fuessl. — Expanse \\ to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings dark brown with a purple flush, the transverse lines 

 purple and yellow, the upper stigmata edged with yellow, and 

 united at their lower corners ; hind wings greyish-brown. 



Antennae of the male stout, simple, but minutely ciliated 



with bristles which stand apart, brown ; head and palpi 



dark purplish-brown ; a small tuft of longer scales at 



the base of each antenna ; collar nearly erect, dark 



purple-brown, triply barred, and also edged, with pale 



yellow ; rest of thorax purple-brown ; shoulder-lappets 



broadly margined with pale yellow ; top and back crests 



rather conspicuous ; fascicles very small, greyish-white ; 



abdomen dull brown, having on the back of the basal 



segment a rather large, bright brown crest, followed on 



succeeding segments by four or five more, very small and 



nearly prostrate, and also extremely fugitive ; lateral and anal 



tufts rather spreading. Fore wings moderately broad, with 



the costa very slightly arched at the base and apex, which 



last is obtusely angulated ; hind margin gently rounded and 



rather full, but bent in and more oblique from the middle ; 



dorsal margin slightly hollowed near the anal angle ; colour 



pale purple, or purple-brown, marbled with dark brown or 



black ; basal line indicated by several isolated black streaks 



edged with yellow ; first line perpendicular, broken with black 



streaks, of which that nearest the dorsal margin is strongly 



angulated ; second line a graceful curved series of small black 



lunules, followed by a slender brown line, both lying in a 



rather broad transverse stripe of the pale purple ground colour; 



subterminal line slender, bright yellow, excessively angulated 



