554? Crepuscular Lepidoptera 



noted by Mr. Brown in p. 220.] I am too little pleased with 

 my success to make the attempt at present; so, in the hope 

 of being able to send you, at some future time, a muster-roll 

 that we need not be ashamed of, I proceed, without further 

 preface, to the Swiss Crepuscularia. 



[" This list being essentially that of Meisner the whole 

 must be considered as his, except such species or notices as 

 are included in parentheses." — Mr, Brow?i 9 in p. 206.] 



CREPUSCULA V RIA. 

 Aty'chia. 



1. statices. Common in June and July, in meadows. 



2. globulariae. Usually confounded with statices ; but is distinguished 



by having its antennae longer, more slender, ending in a sharp point, 

 and not so broadly pectinated (in the males); the wings more 

 rounded ; the fore ones verdigrise green, with a play of blue colour, 

 and dark grey fringe. It flies later than statices. 



3. priini. Rather smaller than statices. Antenna? blackish green, 



shining, finely pectinated, pointed ,• head and back dull green, 

 shining ; abdomen blackish ,• fore wings blackish brown or blackish 

 green, rarely with a blue shade, under side deep grey, fringe dark ; 

 hind wings blackish. Female smaller, with sub-feathery antennae. 



(This species not being in Stephens's or Curtis's Catalogue, and 

 No. 2. appearing to be rare in England, I have inserted the descrip- 

 tion, which may probably lead to detection of them; as, although 

 far less common than No. 1., they both visit the same spots.) 

 (Chimae v r« lugubris. Low Alps of the Valais; rare.) 



Zyg^na. 



4. Minos. Common in June and July on dry slopes. 



5. brizae. In Valais, about Sierre. I have a variety from that place, 



in which the parts usually red are yellow. 



6. scabiosae. Valais, near Louesch, Sierre, &c. 

 (Sarpedow. Valais.) 



7. achilleae. Not rare about Berne, at end of May, in meadows. 



8. exulans. On all high Alps, in July and August. 



9. cynarae. Valais. 



10. meliloti. About Blumenstein, at foot of Stockhorn. 

 (trifolii. Valais and Italian Switzerland.) 



11. lonicerae. Frequent about Berne, &c. (Meisner then describes a 



variety he has taken in Italian Switzerland and the Valais, much 

 larger; the fore wings dark blackish blue; hind wings with broad 

 black borders ; and abdomen very much lengthened. Ochsenheimer 

 says he has received both sexes of this variety from Wallner, and 

 named Z. transalpina ; but it is not the transalpina of himself and 

 Mazzola.) 



12. filipendulae. Abundant everywhere, and in several varieties; ex. 



with smaller spots in the Valais, and frequently with confluent ones 

 near Bellinzona. 



13. transalpina. (Meisner cannot find any character to distinguish this 



from the last, and doubts its being a good species. Ochsenheimer 

 says it is notoriously distinct from both that and the following. 

 Meisner, perhaps, had not the true fly, which is, however, found in 

 the Tessin.) 



