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Southern counties as far north as Cambridgeshire, Oxford- 

 shire, and Gloucestershire ; still widely distributed, though 

 much less common, in Norfolk, Suffolk, Herefordshire, 

 Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Glamorganshire. Local but 

 sometimes common in Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, on 

 the coast of Durham, Northumberland, and Cumberland. 

 In Scotland common in Aberdeenshire, and found in the 

 Solway, Tweed, and Tay districts, and as far north as West 

 Ross. Scottish specimens appear to be of the normal type. 

 In Ireland very widely distributed in the counties of Cork, 

 Kerry, Waterford, Wicklow, Dublin, Limerick, Armagh, and 

 Antrim, but never common. Almost every specimen of the 

 male there met with has been of the pale variety rustica, but 

 there is a single record of the occurrence of a normal blackish 

 example. Common throughout Europe, except in the colder 

 portions of the north and the extreme south, also in 

 Siberia, Asia Minor, and other parts of Northern Asia. The 

 pale variety ncstica is said to be common in Eastern Hungary. 



2. S. lubricepeda, Z.— Expanse 1| to If inch. Pale 

 buff; fore wings with an oblique stripe of black dashes 

 running across the wing to the tip ; hind wings with two or 

 three black spots. 



AntennaB of the male very shortly pectinated, wholly black ; 

 head and thorax densely covered with raised buff-coloured 

 scales ; abdomen tapering, dull yellow, with a row of black 

 spots down the middle of the back, and another down each 

 side. Fore wings broad with all the margins very slightly 

 curved, apex bluntly angulated, hind margin oblique, anal 

 angle rounded but rather full ; colour buff; an elongated 

 black spot lies on the costa near the base, and another beyond 

 the middle ; opposite the first, at the base, are one or two 

 black dots placed perpendicularly, opposite the second is a 

 faint discal spot ; from the middle of the dorsal margin arises 

 a row, or tapering stripe, of black spots, which regularly 

 diminishing in size, or distinctness, passes obliquely across 



