I30 LEPIDOPTERA. 



but found in Herefordshire, Cheshire and Lancashire. In 

 Scotland very local in Ayrshire, Forfarshire, Kincardineshire 

 and Ross-shire, usually near the coast. In Ireland the Rev. 

 W. F. Johnson has found it plentifully in some marshy 

 meadows near Armagh, and it is recorded from Galway, and 

 from Blackrock near Dublin. It is plentiful throughout the 

 greater part of the Continent of Europe, and in Northern 

 Africa, Siberia, and portions of Asia Minor. 



5. Z. lonicerae, Esi^. — Expanse 1 to H inch. Forewings 

 opaque, lustrous, dark blue-grey or green-grey with five light 

 red spots ; hind wings red, with a narrow blue margin ; an- 

 tennae long and rather slender. 



Antennas blue-black, long, rather slender, curved forwards, 

 and, where thickened beyond the middle, curved gracefully 

 back in a long slender point. Head and thorax deep velvety 

 black ; abdomen blue-black. Forewings shaped very nearly 

 as in the last species, but with the rounded apex a little 

 longer, and the hind margin slightly more oblique ; opaque^ 

 brilliantly glossy : deep rich blue-grey or green-grey, with 

 live rich scarlet spots placed as in the last species, but 

 usually more widely separated, the lower middle spot being 

 often but little larger than the upper; cilia blue-black or 

 green-black. Hind wings also shaped as in Z. tvifolii ; rich 

 scarlet, with a slender deep blue irregular stripe along the 

 hind margin ; cilia deep purple, or greenish purple. Female 

 similar, but with broader forewings, and often much larger 

 than the male, which varies greatly in size. Underside a 

 faint copy of the upper, being thinly scaled so that the dark 

 portions are poorly represented. 



Decidedly less variable than the preceding species, but 

 liable occasionally to coalition of the pairs of spots, and also 

 rarelv to the union of the whole into a long blotch, more or 

 less constricted or indented. Occasionally also, though very 

 rarely, specimens are found with the spots and hind wings 

 yellow, the spots separate or confluent ; others occur in which 



