BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



Larva; with fourteen legs and punctiform warts. 

 The only species is: — • 



B. fontis, Thunb. The Beautiful Snout. 

 Fore wings silvery grey with a row of blackish 

 hooks on the hind margins. The inner half 

 of the wings is dark brown. Hind wings dark 

 brown with lighter fringes. The female is 

 more blackish. It is common in most parts of 

 Europe in May and June. The larva is green 

 with five dark dorsal lines. It feeds on bilberry 

 in August and September. 



Genus Hypena, Treit. 

 Antenna setiform, uniformly ciliated in the 

 males. Eyes naked. Front with coarse promi- 

 nent horizontal scales, forming a pointed tuft 

 between the antennas. Palpi long with a straight 

 second joint, and a moderately long, straight 

 terminal joint, directed upwards, with sharp 

 scales on both sides reaching to the extremity. 

 Fore wings narrow, expanded, sharply pointed 

 with the hind margins convex. Hind wings 

 broad, comparatively short with the upper 

 half of the hind margin straight or somewhat 

 contracted. Larva; with sixteen legs, slender, 

 with fine scattered hairs. The moths frequent 

 shady places in woods. 



H. rostralis, Linn. The Buttoned Snout 

 varies considerably in colour and markings, 

 from yellowish brown or reddish brown to 

 dark brown, with dark zigzag lines, and the 

 costa here and there yellowish. It is common 

 throughout Europe in May, and again in 

 Autumn. The larva is green with a dark 

 dorsal line and two white lines on the sides. 

 It feeds on nettle and hop, and is full-grown 

 in July. 



H. proboscidalis, Linn. The Snout. Fore 

 wings yellowish brown, speckled with dark 

 brown, and with dark brown transverse lines 

 and borders. Hind wings lighter with dark 

 hind margins. It is common and widely distri- 

 buted throughout Europe in Jmie and Septem- 

 ber. The larva is green with a dark dorsal 

 stripe and a yellowish stripe on the sides. It 

 feeds on nettle, and other low plants, in May 

 and August. The pupa is enclosed between 

 leaves which it has spun together. 



Genus Tholomiges, Led. 

 Palpi sickle-shaped, with an upward curve, 

 projecting beyond the front and smoothly 



scaled. Fore wings with rectangular apices; 

 hind wings triangular, slightly contracted im- 

 mediately below the apices. Antennae notched 

 in the male. The only species is the smallest 

 of the Nocttia. 



T. turfosalis, Wocke. The March Oblique- 

 barred Moth. Fore wings light grey with a 

 blackish line from the apex to the inner mar- 

 gin, a row of black dots on the hind margin 

 and a dark spot in the middle. Hind wings 

 uniform, without markmgs. It is local on moors 

 in Northern Europe in July and August, and 

 may be found flying at dusk along the grassy 

 margins of ditches, etc. 



Genus Rivula, Guen. 



Antennae finely cihated in the male. Palpi 

 with long pointed scales reaching to the end, 

 and extending nearly twice the length of the 

 head, with a wedge-like point in front. Body 

 and legs covered with smooth scales. Fore 

 wings broad, and without an appendicular cell. 

 Nervures 6 and 7 are separated, 8 and g 

 rise in a common stem from 7, and 10 is 

 separated and rises from the front edge of the 

 discoidal cell. They are rather small, slender 

 moths, which fly in damp grassy places. The 

 larvffi have sixteen legs and a large, flattened 

 head. The pupae are attached by the tail 

 and have a thread around the body. The only 

 species is: — 



R. sericealis, Scop. The Straw Dot. 

 Fore wings straw-colour, with a large dark 

 grey stigma. Hind wings yellowish grey with 

 blackish hind margins. It is common on damp 

 meadows in most parts of Europe, in May 

 and July. The larva is green with two whit- 

 ish dorsal stripes, and feeds on grass in May 

 and in Autumn. 



FAMILY 

 BREPHIDES. 



These moths, which are of middle sizes, 

 resemble the Bombyces in shape, in the absence 

 of ocelli and the presence of bristly hair on 

 the body and legs ; the Geomttrida in the form 

 of the caterpillars (which are provided with 

 twelve legs); and the Noc/zm-genus EitdiiUa in 

 colour and markings. The fore wings arc very 

 long and rather pointed, and there are only 



