112 LEPIDOPTERA. 



alarmed. It was discovered in this country about the year 

 1845 by Mr. J. Jenner Weir, who found it in numbers upon 

 the South Downs near Lewes, Sussex, but keeping itself to 

 extremely restricted spots, and Mr. Weir says always about 

 Poterium sanguisorha, probably attracted by the flowers. It 

 is still to be found in Hollingbury Vale, the Coombe, and 

 other suitable spots near Lewes and Brighton ; on the hills 

 at the back of ShornclifFe Camp and of Folkestone, on the 

 sunny slopes ; and near Abbotts Wood, Sussex ; but does 

 not appear to have been taken, in these islands, outside the 

 counties of Sussex and Kent. 



Abroad it seems to be found in France, Belgium, Central 

 and Southern Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy, Southern 

 Russia, Armenia, and large portions of Western Asia. 



2. P. statices, Z. — Expanse 1 to 1^ inch. 

 Fore wings rather narrow ; bronzy blue-green. Antennje 

 moderately long, solid at the tip. 



Antennae of moderate length, in the male strongly pecti- 

 nated for three-fourths of their extent, the pectinations 

 consisting of flat laminae pointing forward ; the remaining 

 fourth solid, quite equally thick, with numerous tumid joints ; 

 in the female solid throughout, the joints towards the apex 

 tumid ; shaft burnished green ; lower side and pectinations 

 blackish. Head, thorax, and abdomen bronzy green, generally 

 brightly burnished. Fore- wings rather long and not so broad 

 behind as in the last species ; margins moderately straight ; 

 apex blunt ; hind margin rather oblique ; thinly scaled, and 

 having the larger nervures rather raised into longitudinal 

 ridges from the base ; dark bronzy green, without markings ; 

 costal margin and cilia rather darker. Hind wings rather 

 sharply rounded at the apex, with rounded hind margin • 

 smoky grey, with nervures and cilia darker. Female less in 

 expanse than the male, with the hind wings broader at the 

 apex ; otherwise similar. 



