92 LEPIDOPTERA. 



The moth sits on the apple trees, either on the trunk or on 

 leaves ; also upon shrubs and low plants growing beneath, 

 and occasionally comes to flowers in the gardens. It is 

 common in the gardens of the London suburbs wherever old 

 apple trees exist, and has been found in gardens in Norwich. 

 Elsewhere it mainly frequents orchards, and is sometimes 

 abundant in Surrey, Kent, and various parts of Cambridge- 

 shire. Scarce in Sussex, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, 

 and Herefordshire ; found in several localities in Suffolk, 

 Essex, and Middlesex. It has also been found near Sheffield, 

 and a single specimen, " sitting on a road close to some old 

 apple trees," at Grange, Lancashire. But it is most easily 

 overlooked, and probably will be found in suitable places in 

 almost every county south of Yorkshire and Lancashire. 



In Ireland it was recorded by Mr. E. Birchall from Dublin 

 and Cork, but does not appear to have been noticed recently. 

 Abroad it is found in Silesia, and many other parts of Central 

 Europe, Livonia, Dalmatia, Greece, and Southern and Eastern 

 Russia. 



8. S. culiciformis, Z. Expanse 1 to 1| inch. Wings 

 transparent ; fore wings reddish or orange at the base, purplish 

 black at the tip ; abdominal belt red. 



Antennae in the male with short, dense pectinations, in the 

 female simple, but long, stout, and gracefully curved, blue- 

 black. Head and thorax black ; abdomen black, with a 

 broad central orange-red belt ; anal tuft large, black ; legs 

 black, with yellow dashes, except the tarsi, which are yellow- 

 ish. Wings transparent, with black nervures ; fore wings 

 with the base of the costal margin and of the nervures, 

 tinged with bright orange-red ; costal stripe rather broad, 

 bluish black ; apex and hind margin broadly bronzy black ; 

 dorsal margin narrowly black ; transverse spot rather oblique, 

 deep black. Hind wings with the costal margin orange ; 

 hind margin narrowly blue black, central streak black. Cilia 

 of all the wings dark purplish grey. 



