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result of observations, by his father, extending over sixty- 

 years. With the exception noticed by ilr. Bankes it appears, 

 with us, to be confined to the coast. Tliere is no record of its 

 occurrence east of Wej'mouth, but westward it has been 

 found, here and there, along the Dorset and Devon coast as 

 far as Sidmouth, Seaton and Torquay, and has even been 

 recorded in Cornwall, near Truro. I know of no other locality 

 in these islands. It was at one time reported to have been 

 taken in plenty at Shenstone near Lichfield, and at Stratford- 

 on-Avon. Warwickshire ; but these statements were hi^'hly 

 improbable and have not been confirmed, and there is little 

 doubt that the captors were misled by the different appear- 

 ance of the sexes in one of the common species. 



Abroad it is by no means restricted to the sea-coast, but 

 is found in dry places, and on hill-sides, in Central and 

 Southern Europe, Korthern Africa, and Asia Minor, generally 

 upon chalk or limestone formations. 



4. H. Sylvanus, A's;/;.— Expanse \\ to \\ inch. Bright 

 fulvous, broadly clouded with darkish brown ; underside of 

 hind wings golden yellow. 



Thorax robust ; abdomen rather short and stout ; club of 

 antenna? furnished with a short recurved point, or hook ; 

 fore wings rather broad, with nearly straight costa, and 

 rounded apex and hind margin ; hind wings rounded except 

 towai'ds the anal angle, which is slightly produced and 

 extended beyond the rest of the hind margin. Antennse 

 blackish above, yellowish beneath. Fore wings of the male 

 rich bright fulvous with the hind margin broadly golden brown, 

 and a cloud of paler brown, broken by the nervures, just 

 beyond the discal cell ; nervures all brown, those in the 

 m iddle of the wing the darkest ; and a broad deep black 

 oblique streak from the subdorsal nervure, near the base, to 

 the apex of the discal cell, densely crowded on each side 

 w ith upraised golden-fulvous scales. The black streak seems 

 in reality to arise at the base of the wing and run along the 



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