298 LEPIDOPTERA. 



previously been known to occur. It seemed as though a 

 flight of the species suddenly aiTived. Here it continued to 

 be found until the wet season of 1860, when (with Polyom- 

 matus Arion, as already stated) it totally disappeared from 

 the district, and there is no subsequent record there. It is 

 said to be found at Chartley Park, Staffordshire, and Mr. E. 

 Birchall even recorded it from near Scarborough and York, 

 but I know of no recent captures in Yorkshire. There are 

 other records from places so entirely improbable that it is 

 difficult to avoid the conclusion that one of the sexes of 

 .51 sylvanus has been mistaken for the present species. 

 Widely distributed throughout Europe and Northern and 

 Western Asia, found in dry places, but apparently not con- 

 fined to the chalk. 



Genus 3. CYCLOPIDES. 



Antennae not hooked ; head veiy broad, much tufted with 

 hairs ; abdomen rather long and slender ; fore wings narrow, 

 elongated, and rather pointed ; hind wings entire. 



Larva. Head not disproportionately large, body elongated, 

 tapering towards the tail. 



Pupa smooth and rather slender. 



1. C. Paniscus, F., Palaemon, Stcmd. Cat. — Expanse 

 1 to Ig inch. Eich dark brown, spotted and banded with 

 yellowish orange. 



Fore wings rather narrow and pointed, with a rounded 

 shoulder at the base of the costa, but otherwise with nearly 

 straight costal and dorsal margins, and the hind margin 

 oblique and somewhat rounded. Black-brown. Male, fore 

 wings dusted with golden brown at the base, and chequered 

 with large, yellowish orange or yellow-fulvous spots, two or 

 three of the smallest, rather wedge-shaped, lying across the 

 wing before the middle, one, squared and much larger, across 

 the discal cell, four or five more forming a broken fascia 



