98 LEPIDOPTERA. 



abdominal segments edged with' minute hooks; tail blunt. 

 Shining bronzy brown; eye cases black. 



In a cocoon in the middle of the root-stock of the food plant. 



This species, unlike some of its congeners, usually emerges 

 from the pupa in the afternoon or evening. The moth 

 may be swept up from among its food plant from 6 to after 

 8 o'clock p.M, and has been taken flying at 7.30 p.m. It 

 appears to be mainly confined to dry flowery slopes on the 

 coast, and to chalk hills in the South of England. It is 

 found along the whole sweep of the south coast, Kent, 

 Sussex, Hants with the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, and 

 Cornwall. In the latter two counties it is found also on the 

 north coast, and in some of these localities is plentiful. 

 On the east coast it has been found in the Isle of Sheppey 

 and at Southend, Essex ; inland at Whittlesford, Fulborne, 

 and elsewhere on chalk hills in Cambridgeshire ; Wolver- 

 ton, Bucks ; on hills in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, and 

 Somersetshire ; rarely at Lewes, Sussex ; formerly plentifully 

 at Charlton, Kent. Has been taken, very rarely, near 

 Brandon, Suffolk ; and one of the earliest notices of the species 

 in this country was of a specimen taken at South Creake, 

 near Fakenham, Norfolk. North of this the only records 

 are from Flamborough Head and near Scarborough on the 

 coast of Yorkshire. In Wales it is abundant in Pembroke- 

 shire, and doubtless occurs in suitable places on the remainder 

 of the South Wales coast. Very widely distributed over 

 Europe, the north of Africa, Asia Minor, and Siberia. 



11. S. philanthiformis. Laspcijrcs ; musciformis, 

 Stand. Gat. — Expanse, | to f inch. Fore wings with very 

 narrow transparent spaces ; margins and apex dark brown ; 

 abdominal belts slender, yellowish-white. 



Antenna) blackish-brown in the male, in the female with 

 a long whitish central blotch on the upper side ; head blackish ; 

 collar pale yellow ; thorax black-brown, with a white or pale 

 yellow stripe on each side ; abdomen bronzy black-brown, 



