88 LEPIDOPTERA. 



apparently very scarce, or absent, farther north, and in Scot- 

 land has only been noticed, rarely, in the south. Scarce or 

 absent in some parts of Wales. In Ireland it was found 

 commonly near Dublin by Mr. E. Birchall, and has recently 

 been reared by Mr. J. N. Milne at Londonderry. 



Abroad it is widely distribvited in Northern and Central 

 Europe, Piedmont, Southern Kussia, Bulgaria, Dalmatia, and 

 Armenia. It has been imported into North America with 

 currant bushes, and has there effected a settlement, and is 

 supposed to have arrived by the same means in New Zealand, 

 where it has been found by Mr. R. W. Fereday. 



6. S. cynipiformis, Eqj. ; asiliformis, Stand. Cat. — 

 Expanse f to 1 inch. Wings transparent, cross-bar red, tip 

 purplish ; abdominal belts yellow ; anal tuft yellow or black. 



Antennee blue-black ; head black ; collar yellow ; thorax 

 black, with a yellow stripe on each side above the insertion of 

 the wings ; abdomen slender in the male, stouter in the 

 female, black, with two yellow spots at the base, and three 

 brilliantly yellow belts placed at regular intervals, the last of 

 which, placed immediately before the anal tuft, is double in 

 the male, with the tuft black ; single in the female, with the 

 tuft golden yellow. Legs bright yellow, with a black bar, and 

 the tarsi orange. 



Wings transparent, with the nervures purplish black. Fore 

 wings with all the margins purplish black, and having a dusky 

 purplish or bronzy-purple apical blotch which is divided by 

 the black nervures ; transverse spot rich orange-red, edged 

 inwardly with black. Hind wings edged with purplish black. 

 Cilia all dusky purplish grey. 



Under side of the transparent portions of the wings iridescent 

 blue ; fore wings with the base and costal margin glisteniug 

 yellow, dorsal margin narrowly reddish, apex yellow with the 

 nervures dark, transverse spot orange red, cilia bronzy grey ; 

 margin of hind wings bronzy purple. Palpi and front of the 

 thorax yellow ; remainder of the under side of the thorax 



