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county. In Scotland it is found in Perthshire and Rox- 

 burghshire, and apparently throughout the southern districts, 

 as well as in Aberdeenshire. Widely distributed in Ireland ; 

 common in the Dublin, Belfast, and Londonderry districts, 

 and throughout the south and west. Abroad its range 

 appears to be restricted, but it is recorded from Holland 

 and Central Germany. 



2. S. apiformis, L. — Expanse 1^ to If inches. Wings 

 transparent, with yellow-brown margins and nervures ; 

 thorax brown, with a large yellow patch on each shoulder ; 

 abdomen thick, yellow, belted with purple and black. 



Antennae short, stout, and strongly laminated in the male ; 

 blackish brown, with the laminae or teeth purple-brown ; 

 head bright yellow ; collar dark-brown ; thorax dark-brown, 

 with four large yellow blotches, two in front on the shoulders, 

 and one at the back on each side, though these last vary 

 considerably, being sometimes quite narrow, while in other 

 instances they coalesce and form a band across the back ; 

 abdomen bright yellow, each segment edged with black, the 

 basal segment purplish-black, and three other segments 

 shaded with purple and black ; legs deep yellow, the third 

 pair very long, robust, and thickly clothed with orange scales. 



Fore wings narrow, transparent, though, when the moth 

 has just emerged, having a thin covering of coarse, loose, 

 yellow-brown scales; costal margin with a broad yellow- 

 brown stripe increasing in breadth towards the apex ; 

 nervures and the dorsal and hind margins narrowly yellow- 

 brown ; no apical blotch nor transverse spot, but at the end 

 of the discal cell a broad reddish perpendicular streak from 

 which the small nervures arise. Hind wings transparent or, 

 when just emerged, clothed very thinly with fine yellow 

 scales; margins and nervures narrowly yellowish-brown. 

 All the cilia very dense, brown mixed with dull yellow. 



Under side of all the wings similar to the upper, except 

 that the margins and nervures are much more yellow, and the 



