376 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ijeing found in most parts of Central Europe where suitable 

 woods exist ; in Southern Sweden, the Ural Mountain district, 

 Tartary and the mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



6. X. scolopacina, Esip. — Expanse l^to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings pale drab softly clouded with red-brown, darkest along 

 the hind margin ; a black longitudinal streak at the base of 

 the dorsal margin ; reniform stigma white. Hind wings 

 pale purplish-brown. 



Antennge of the male simple, minutely ciliated, dark brown ; 

 palpi small, moderately tufted, pale brown, more black-brown 

 at the sides, third joint minute ; head light brown, a small 

 paler tuft at the base of each antenna ; thorax pale brown, 

 across the front of the collar is a faint slender blackish- 

 brown bar ; shoulder-lappets uplifted, dusted with dark 

 brown ; top and back crests small but broadly tipped with 

 deep purple-brown ; fascicles pale drab ; abdomen pale 

 purplish-brown, the dorsal ridge ornamented with three or 

 four minute oblique purple-brown crests ; lateral tufts 

 spreading, yellow-brown ; anal tuft smoky-brown in the 

 middle, yellow-brown at the sides. Fore wings very neat, 

 rather blunt ; costa gently curved ; apex squarely angulated ; 

 hind margin below it not very oblique, yet below the middle 

 suddenly bent more obliquely to the anal angle and even 

 faintly excavated, also slightly crenulated ; dorsal margin 

 nearly straight ; colour j^ellowish-drab or very pale wainscot- 

 brown, clouded with pale chocolate ; at the base of the dorsal 

 margin is a short horizontal black streak, edged with 

 chocolate ; basal line usually absent, when visible slender, 

 twice angulated, abbreviated, reddish-brown ; first line, when 

 visible, nearly perpendicular, but sinuous and angulated, 

 chocolate-brovvn, often only indicated by two or three dots 

 upon nervures ; second line rather upright, but suddenly 

 bent out into a large curve round the reniform stigma and 

 composed of a series of very slender crescents between the 

 nervures, upon which the junction points are drawn sharply 



