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— one taken in the Torwood, Stirlingshire — and said to occur 

 at Moncrieff Hill, Perthshire. 



In Ireland scarce in Wicklow and Kerry, reported to be 

 more frequent in Galway. 



Abroad it is found over the greater part of Central Europe, 

 in Piedmont, Livonia, and Southern Russia. 



2. D. Dodonoea, Schiff.; trimacula, Stand. Cat. — 

 Expanse 1^ inch. Fore wings rather narrow, purple-brown, 

 with a broad central white band in which is no trace of a 

 central lunule ; hind margin marbled with white ; hind 

 wings pale brownish-grey. 



Antennae of the male strongly pectinated, light brown ; 

 head white ; thorax stout, densely covered with long recumbent 

 scales, white, or mixed grey and white, edged at the back 

 and along the shoulder lappets with black ; abdomen mode- 

 rately stout, light brown, with a rather loose anal tuft, and 

 long slender tufts down the sides. Fore wings somewhat 

 narrow ; costa faintly concave in the middle, very slightly 

 rounded beyond ; apex suddenly rounded, almost angulated ; 

 hind margin gently rounded ; dorsal margin slightly, but 

 gracefully curved and with a very small blackish prominent 

 tuft. Colour purplish-brown, whitish at the extreme base, 

 where are two black spots indicating a sort of basal line ; 

 first transverse line black, obscured by the ground colour, 

 much curved, edged inside with white, and the latter in some 

 instances partially again with black ; second line indistinct, 

 indented, not very oblique, duplicated and having a shining 

 white intermediate stripe. The broad central band between 

 these two lines is shai-ply divided, the anterior portion being 

 of the ground colour and with its edge concave, the remaining 

 portion white ; but it never contains any central lunule or 

 spot. Hind margin clouded with whitish, sometimes almost 

 wholly white, the dark colour remaining as a broad triangular 

 blotch on the costa near the apex, containing blacker streaks, 

 and more or less connected along the outside of the second 



