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Forest, Sussex, but has been taken in Burnt Wood, Bishops 

 Wood, and other places in North Staffordshire, in Hereford- 

 shire, at Chat Moss, Lancashire, and in Yorkshire, Essex, 

 and possibly in Norfolk ; also formerly in the Isle of Wight, 

 and near London. In the present year it has been taken 

 near Basingstoke, Hants, by Mr. Hamm, and Sir John 

 Llewellyn's gardener has found it at Neath, South Wales. 

 It does not seem to have been met with in the other portions 

 of the United Kingdom, but abroad is widely distributed 

 in Northern and Central Europe, with Northern Italy, 

 Southern Russia and Siberia. 



4. S. andrseniformis, Laspeyres ; allantiformis, 

 Newman. — Expanse 1 inch. Wings transparent, nervures 

 black, thickened, apex broadly black, antennas black, abdomen 

 with two yellow belts and an orange tuft. 



Antennae rather slender, thickening very gradually from the 

 base to near the apex, then suddenly tapering to the point, 

 black. Head and thorax deep black ; abdomen blue-black 

 with two slender yellow rings or belts, the second slightly the 

 broader ; between and beyond these the edges of the segments 

 are slightly tinged with yellow; anal tuft blue-black at the base, 

 then reddish-yellow ; legs with the tarsi shining blue-black, 

 tibiae yellow and black, spurs yellow. Wings transparent. 



Costal margin of the fore wings black, most broadly so at 

 the base and beyond the middle ; dorsal margin black, broadly 

 so at the base ; apical and hind marginal space filled by a 

 broad purple-black blotch, from the perpendicular inner edge 

 of which the nervures are distinctly thickened with black 

 scales ; transverse bar broad, black, touching the black 

 margin on each side ; transparent portion of the wings rather 

 narrow. Hind wings with nervures black, and a purple 

 black border to the hind margin, broadest at the apex. Cilia 

 all black. 



Under side of the wings brilliant with a purplish golden 

 gloss ; nervures black ; margins black, thinly covered with 



