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records from Aberdeen, Peterhead, Fyvie and Banff. In 

 Ireland I know of but a single instance, at Mullaglimore, Co. 

 Sligo, in September 1881. Abroad, though not always 

 plentiful, it is one of the most cosmopolitan of insects. 

 Scarce in Central Europe, common in Spain and other parts 

 of the South, abundant in South Africa, where it almost 

 equals Macroglossa Hylas in numbers about the flowering 

 shrubs in the gardens. Common also in the Canaries, 

 Northern Africa, Abyssinia, Northern India, Australia, Java, 

 Borneo, Labuan and the Fiji Isles. The freedom with which 

 it passes from continent to continent, island to island, is 

 illustrated by the frequency with which it is found at rest 

 upon ships in mid-ocean. 



2. C. porcellus, L. Expanse 2 to 2\ inches. 



Fore wings pale brown with rosy costal and hind margins ; 

 hind wings yellowish with the base black. 



Antennte white, with the underside and pectinations (in 

 the male) light brown. Thorax broad and robust ; abdomen 

 thick in the basal half, but tapering off rather suddenly to a 

 long point. Head and thorax rosy -red, sometimes with a 

 patch of olive-brown upon each shoulder ; base of the wings 

 covered by a whitish tuft. Abdomen rosy-red with a broad 

 bar of rosy-brown on the back of each segment. Fore 

 wings with the costa straight to near the apex, which is 

 sharply pointed ; hind margin sinuous, slightly hollowed 

 below the apex, then rounded, and very faintly scalloped 

 between the nervures ; dorsal margin hollowed before the 

 anal angle, which is rather strongly elbowed. Hind wings 

 short, blunt at the apex, with the hind margin sinuous, 

 faintly scalloped and hollowed before the anal angle. Fore 

 wings dull ochreous brown with a faint clouding of olive- 

 brown ; along the costal margin, commencing near the base, 

 is an irregular longitudinal stripe of rosy pink, broken 

 twice by the ground colour and narrowing off to a point at 

 the apex of the wing ; hind margin also rosy pink, broadly 



