nRITlSH AXD EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



and between tlie nervures a black marginal 

 line. The larva is grass-green and feeds on 

 maple. 



Zi albiocellaria, Hiibn. closely resembles 

 the last species, but is brighter yellow, almost 

 orange. The whole central area is suffused 

 with brown, the eye-spot in it being centred 

 with white, the posterior transverse line broken 

 up into spots and the marginal line absent. 

 It is found in Southern Europe, but occurs 

 only singly. 



Z. porata, Fabr. The False Mocha is 

 ochreous thickly dusted with brick-red, with 

 rows of dots on the two transverse lines, 

 which are sometimes nearly obliterated by the 

 dusting, a central shade, a white centre to the 

 eye-spots, and between the nervures a sharp 

 dark marginal line. Except for the eye-spots 

 it is very like the next species in colour and 

 markings. It is common in Southern and 

 Central Europe. The larva is green or flesh- 

 coloured, with the head and anal segment red. 

 It feeds on oak. 



Z. punctaria, Linn. The Maiden's Blush 

 is reddish ochreous, thickly dusted with red- 

 dish, with two transverse lines composed of 

 rows of dots, a very sharply defined central 

 shade, often red spots near the hinder angle 

 of the fore wings and between the nervures 

 a sharp dark marginal line, but no central 

 spot. It is common in Central and Southern 

 Europe. The larva is very variable, brown 

 or yellowish green, with a pale dorsal line, 

 bounded by a yellow one as far as segment 

 5, one darker than the ground colour in front, 

 on the sides of each segment from the fifth 

 to the eleventh, and a pointed angle enclosing 

 a few red or yeiiow lines. It lives in June 

 and September on oak and birch. The pupa 

 is whitish with a few dark spots, conical, with 

 the head truncated and form,ing two angles. 

 It has a broadly obtuse anal extremity. It is 

 attached by a thread round the body to a 

 leaf, after the fashion of the Pitridce. 



Z. linearia, Hiibn. The Clay Triple Lines 

 is bright ochre-yellow with three dark trans- 

 verse lines, the central being the thickest, 

 and the two outer often composed of rows of 

 spots. There is a sharp dark marginal line, 

 and there may be ocellated spots on all the 

 wings, on the fore wings only, or they may 



be absent altogether, 

 in Centra) Europe. 



It is widely distributed 



Genus Timandra, Dup. 



Fore wings pointed, with the hind margins 

 slightly waved; hind wings with the hind 

 margins almost rectangular, and projecting 

 at the angle. Nervures 3 and 4, and 6 and 7 

 rise from a point, and the rest of the nervures 

 are arranged as in Acidalia. Antennas as in 

 Zonosoma. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs 

 in both sexes. 



T. amataria, Linn. The Blood-vein is 

 greenish yellow, thickly and finely dusted w'ith 

 grey, with a straight, oblique broad dark rosy- 

 red transverse line, sometimes suffused towards 

 the hind margin, extending from the tip of 

 the fore wings to the middle of the inner 

 margin and continued across the hind wings. 

 On the fore wings there is a slender transverse 

 line near the base and a central dot between 

 this and the other, while outside the broad 

 line a slender slightly irregular line descends 

 from it somewhat below the apex of the fore 

 wings and is continued across the hind wings. 

 It is common throughout Europe in May and 

 again in July and August. The larva is slender 

 with the fifth segment thickened, greyish with 

 two fine brown lines reaching to the end of 

 the fifth segment and broader and darker 

 ones, which at this point coalesce with them 

 below. There are two light brown dots on 

 the back of the fifth segment, angular hooks 

 with the points directed backwards on the 

 five succeeding segments and a broad grey 

 median line on a dark ground on the last three 

 segments. It is found throughout the whole 

 of the Summer on Polygonum, Rmnex and other 

 low plants. The pupa is conical with two 

 obtuse points above, the anal point with four 

 booklets, brownish grey with dark dots. It 

 is enclosed in a few threads on the leaves of 

 the food plant. 



Genus Pellonia, Dup. 



Middle-sized moths with broad, pointed 

 fore wings and rounded hind wings. Nervures 

 3 and 4 of the hind wings are branched, 6 

 and 7 have a short stem. On the fore wings 

 nervures 7 and 8 rise from the tip, 11 from 

 the costa, and g and 10 from 8. The antcnnaj 



