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it is generally dying out ; it still seems to occur commonly in 

 its very restricted haunts in eveiy part of England and Wales, 

 and here and there in Scotland, as far north as ]Moray and 

 Argyle, as well as in the Island of Mull. In Ireland it has 

 been found in the counties of Galway and Wicklow, at 

 Killarney, and in the county Cork, where ]\Ir. Sandford has 

 found it on a hill three hundred feet high. At Kilavany 

 Wood, near Tinahely, it was formerly plentiful, but seems to 

 have disappeared. ]\Irs. Battersby records that, in the locality 

 from which she sent so many beautifully dark specimens, it 

 has been exterminated by floods and that potent factor in the 

 extinction of Lcpidoptcra, the plough. The Kev. W. W. 

 Flemyng tells me that it has been taken in different places 

 round Waterford, Tramore, Granny Castle, and Balliuamona. 

 Abroad, its distribution is very wide, throughout the greater 

 part of Europe, Northern Asia, and Northern Africa. In its 

 southern i-auge it is found of large size and brilliant red 

 colouring, while in the north, and especially in mountain 

 ranges, it becomes extremely small, dusky, and insignificant 

 in appearance. 



Family 8. SATYRID^. 



Antennte slender at the base, not very long, gradually 

 thickened to a narrow club. First pair of legs imperfect in 

 both sexes, often mere brushes of diverging hair-scales in the 

 males. Fore wings rounded or slightly concave behind; hind 

 wings rounded, often with the margin somewhat scalloped, 

 and with a hollow at the dorsal margin to receive the 

 abdomen. 



In most of the species the fore wings have an ocellated 

 spot near the apex, and the hind wings a row of similar spots 

 before the hind margin. 



LAKViE smooth ; head rounded, sometimes divided above ; 

 body tapering to the tail, which is usually forked. Feeding 

 upon grasses. 



