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possibly have been descendants of larvae which were sent into 

 Norfolk from Wicken in 1873, by Mr. F. D. Wheeler, and 

 turned out in Ranworth Fen. No district would seem more 

 suitable to the species than these Norfolk fens, yet there is 

 no other record of its occurrence there. 



Abroad it is found throughout the temperate portions of 

 Northern Europe, Central Europe, Italy, Central Spain, 

 Turkey, Greece, Dalmatia, Southern Russia, Armenia, and 

 Asia Minor. 



2. C. Hera, L. — Expanse 2 to 2\ inches. Fore wings 

 very broad ; blackish, with straight white stripes ; hind wings 

 crimson, with black spots. 



Antennae black, slender and threadlike, but having, in the 

 male, two rows of minute, hardly distinguishable, slender 

 bristles ; tongue rather long, bright chestnut ; top of the head 

 deep yellow ; palpi black, and above them, on the face, is a 

 round black spot ; collar black, edged with yellowish white ; 

 thorax creamy white, almost occupied by three long tapering 

 black stripes, one down each shoulder lappet, and one down 

 the back ; abdomen dull pale scarlet, with a row of small 

 black spots down the middle of the back. Fore wings some- 

 what triangular, being narrow at the base and extremely 

 broad behind ; costa gently and regularly curved ; apex very 

 bluntly angulated or almost rounded ; hind margin straight 

 and hardly oblique, but rounded off towards the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin straight. Deep velvety black with a greenish 

 gloss. From the costa proceed six creamy-white stripes, the 

 first, arising at the base, is slender, short and very oblique ; 

 the second extremely short and slender; the third, from 

 before the middle of the costa, is broad and straight, proceeding 

 towai'ds the anal angle, before reaching which it tapers to a 

 point ; the fourth, fi'om the middle of the costa, is oblique, 

 short, slender, often tinged with deep yellow ; the fifth, broad, 

 extending from the costa beyond the middle to the anal 

 angle ; the sixth, also broad, from the costa near the apex, 



