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the Lepidoptera of St. Helena. 
more especially along the great central ridge. I have met 
with it on the Cabbage-Tree Road, below Diana’s Peak and 
Action, and in still greater profusion at Cason’s, flying over 
the foliage, more especially of the common bramble. With 
its previous states, however, I am not acquainted, though 
constantly on the look-out for the unmistakable signs of 
mines on the adjacent foliage (whatever it happened it be); and 
I am inclined therefore to think that it may be a seed-infest¬ 
ing larva. 
Genus 37. Stagmatophora, Id.-8. 
Stagmatophora trifasciata , E. Woll. 
Expanse 34-4 lines. With the labial palpi divergent, some¬ 
what arched, and having the terminal joint longer than the 
second one; head covered with coarse imbricated coppery scales. 
The fore wings are of a rich velvety brown, with three large, 
conspicuous, transverse fasciae formed of brilliant metallic 
scales (in wiiich silvery or coppery tints prevail); the first 
fascia is at the base, the second (which is straight and much 
more elevated or gibbose) just before the middle, and the third 
one (which is more arcuated or internally scooped out) parallel 
with and near to the outer (truncated) margin. Even the 
dark portion of the wing between the fascias is dusted with a 
few coarse metallic and more or less coppery scales. Hind 
wings of a dull, smoky, blackish brown and quite free from 
metallic lustre. Thorax of the same dark metallic hue as the 
upper wings. Body smoky black, but more or less sprinkled 
with paler scales. Antennae long and black, the extreme 
apex being of a pure white. 
It was only on the highest portion of the central ridge that 
I obtained this extremely beautiful Stagmatophora ; and, 
indeed, so remarkably circumscribed was it in its range that, 
although we constantly visited that particular region during 
our six months’ residence in the island, I was never able to 
meet with it except on the precipitous declivities on the moun¬ 
tain known as Actteon. On the northern slopes it was ex¬ 
tremely rare; but on the southern side (overlooking the great 
Sandy-Bay crater) I found it quite abundantly, especially 
along a damp and rocky pathway which leads up to the side 
of the ridge immediately before arriving at the place called 
Newfoundland ; and it was out of the tangled bushes of the 
common bramble that I principally beat it. 
There is no fear of confounding S. trifasciata with any thing 
else that has hitherto been observed at St. Helena, the three 
brilliantly metallic bands with which the rich coppery brown 
