SESIIDM. loi 



North Wales and the North-west of England. The same 

 may be suggested with regard to Ireland, though hitherto 

 the insect appears only to have been met with in the Saltee 

 Islands, Co. Wexford, and once at Howth, near Dublin. 

 Found in various parts of the continent of Europe, but its 

 exact range is doubtful, some of the recorded localities possibly 

 belonging to closely allied species in this obscure group. 



12. S. chrysidiformis, Esj), — Expanse, f to | inch. 

 Fore wings bright red, hind wings transparent ; abdominal 

 belts yellow ; anal tuft red. 



Antennas blue-black ; face white ; palpi yellowish ; top of 

 the head reddish-brown ; thorax blue-black ; abdomen bril- 

 liant greenish-black, with a narrow yellow belt in the middle, 

 and another, still more slender, before the anal segment ; 

 anal tuft of a brilliant orange-red ; legs orange-red, tarsi 

 greyer, spines white. Fore wings deep rich orange-red, with 

 the base and costal margin broadly black ; hind margin 

 narrowly smoky- black, with the nervures blacker ; beyond the 

 middle a broad kidney-shaped black spot takes the place of the 

 usual transverse bar, but does not reach the margins ; before 

 it is a long, wedge-shaped, glistening yellow, transparent 

 space, and sometimes a narrow line of the same between the 

 dorsal and median nervures ; beyond it, in the orange-red 

 area, are three or four short transparent streaks between 

 nervures. Hind wings transparent, with black nervures and 

 purple-black margin, and having, close to the middle of the 

 costal margin, a black spot edged outside with orange-red. 

 Cilia of all the wings long, dense, shining, smoky-grey 

 with a purple gloss. Female rather larger and much stouter 

 than the male. Underside of all the wings similar to the 

 upper, except that the costal margin of the fore wings is 

 glistening yellowisli, and the red colour is paler toward the 

 base of the wings ; transparent portion of the hind wings of 

 a brilliantly iridescent purple and red. Under parts of the 

 head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen blue-black, the central 



