86 LEPIDOPTERA. 



golden-yellow scales ; transverse bar purplish black ; apical 

 blotch black, with the nervures in it covered with glistening 

 golden scales. Palpi bright yellow ; thorax blue-black, with a 

 yellow patch on each side ; abdomen blue-black, with a broad 

 yellow belt, and the anal tuft as on the upper side. 



When alive the insect spreads out its anal tuft, like a fan, 

 and it then appears black at each side, pale yellow at the 

 base, and the larger middle portion fulvous. 



On the wing at the end of June and in July. 



The Larva ajjpears to be unknown, though suspected of 

 feeding in the stems of Cornus sanguinea (Dogwood). 



Excessively rare in this country. The first specimen seems 

 to have been taken at Darenth Wood, Kent, in the year 1829 ; 

 and several more are recorded from the same wood, and 

 from Greenhithe, though at long intervals. One of these was 

 beaten out of dogwood {Cornus sanguinea). The Eev. A. W. 

 Wratislaw took one flying about a hedge of the same plant 

 between Folkstone and Dover about 1858, and Mr. R. C. L. 

 Perkins another in the same manner at Wotton-under-Edge, 

 Gloucestershire, in 188G. One was taken basking in the 

 sunshine, upon a laurel leaf, in a garden near Tring, Hertford- 

 shire, in 1876 ; Mr, C. A. Briggs has one taken at Gravesend, 

 and Mr. S. Webb one from near Dover, where three were 

 seen and two captured in 1889. There is also a record of 

 a single specimen taken near Bristol. Abroad it is found 

 in Austria, Hungary, and Southern Russia, but does not 

 appear to be found commonly anywhere. 



5. S. tipuliformis, L. — Expanse, | to f inch. Wings 

 transparent, tip bronzy, cross bar black ; abdominal belts 

 slender, yellow ; anal tuft spreading, black. 



Antennae slender, black ; head and thorax black, the latter 

 with a slender yellow stripe on each side ; abdomen slender, 

 deep black, with three very narrow, equidistant, yellow rings 

 or belts ; anal tuft large and spreading, blue black ; legs 



