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BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



A. adustata, W. V. The Scorched Carpet 

 has the wings white; the fore wings varied 

 with violet-black and walnut-brown. The cen- 

 tral area is irregularly dusted with darker or 

 has rows of spots, and there is on the inner 

 margin and towards the costa an obtuse angle. 

 The marginal area has a violet-black band 

 varied with walnut-brown and near the base 

 uniformly suffused with brown; this is quite 

 white near the apex of the wings. There is 

 also a more or less distinct white submarginal 

 line bordered by a curve of bluish-grey spots. 

 The marginal line is sharply black between 

 the nervures. Fringes light grey with a bluish- 

 grey spot near the tip. The hind wings have 

 the same markings as the fore wings as far 

 as the middle, but with two indistinct parallel 

 grey bands and fringes, a more or less distinct 

 submarginal line and a few small faint spots 

 on the marginal line. The head and thorax 

 are violet-black varied with brown ; the ab- 

 domen white with longitudinal rows of grey 

 dots. It is common in woods in Europe from 

 June to August. The larva is dark green, 

 lighter in the incisions, with a white spot 

 dotted with red on the back of segments 6, 7 

 and 8, and a flesh-coloured dark-bordered one 

 above the legs on segments 6 and 7. It feeds 

 gregariously on Euonymus europaus. The pupa 

 is dark brown with a fine terminal point, and 

 is enclosed between leaves. 



A. marginata, Linn. The Clouded Border. 

 PL XXIX. fig. 7. is common in woods in 

 Central and Southern Europe. It is double 

 brooded in May and August. The larva is 

 light or dark green with fine black longitudinal 

 lines, a yellowish white one above the legs 

 and 3'ellow or blackish incisions. The head 

 is green striped with brown. It feeds on hazel, 

 elm, etc. The pupa is small, thick and rounded, 

 and of a reddish brown colour. It is sub- 

 terranean. 



Genus Bapta, Steph. 



Middle-sized moths with broad fore wings, 

 with somewhat rectangular apices, convex hind 

 margins and a rounded hinder angle and 

 rounded hind wings. Nervure 2 of the fore wings 

 springs from the middle of the inner border 

 of the discoidal cell, 3 and 4 from a point 

 from the lower, 6 from the upper angle, 7 and 



8 by a long stem from the anterior margin, g 

 from 8, II and 12 being united; 10 rises from 

 the stem of 7 and 8, and touches 11 close to 

 its origin. On the hind wings nervure la is 

 behind the middle of the inner margin, ib 

 behind the anal angle, 3 and 4 from a point, 

 6 and 7 separate but close together, 8 rises 

 free from the base and 5 is slender and almost 

 obliterated. Palpi short, slightly projecting; 

 proboscis spiral ; antennae stout, slightly cilia- 

 ted in the males. Hind tibiae with two pairs 

 of spurs. 



B. pictaria, Curt. The Sloe Carpet is 

 brownish grey with slightl}' waved hind mar- 

 gins and two fine zigzag transverse lines on the 

 fore wings, the posterior of which is continued 

 as a fine line on the hind wings. There is 

 a dark central dot on all the wings. It is scarce 

 and local in Central Europe in April and May. 



B. bimaculata, Fabr. The White-pinion 

 Spotted jNIoth is snow white, with two (on 

 the hind wings one) rusty red, very fine trans- 

 verse lines, that on the costa of the fore wings 

 e.xpanded into a blackish spot, a rusty-red 

 marginal line and a central dot of the same 

 colour on all the wings. The fringes of the 

 fore wings are also rusty red as far as their 

 narrow white base. It is found in Central and 

 Southern Europe m June, but always singly. 



B. temerata, W. V. The Clouded Silver 

 Moth is white, with two (on the hind wings 

 one) broad indistinct .stripes instead of trans- 

 verse lines and another in the place of the sub- 

 marginal line on all the wings, black crescents 

 on the hind margins between the nervures, 

 and brownish fringes, white at their base, 

 on the hind wings. There is a fine dark 

 marginal line on the hind wings and a dark 

 central dot on all the wings, most distinct on 

 the fore wings. It is found in Central and 

 Southern Europe in May and again in July. 

 The larva is light green with a yellow dorsal 

 line on each segment with a red dot on it. 

 The head is light green with a reddish brown 

 spot on the sides. It lives on birch and willow 

 in June. The pupa is brown and rather obtuse, 

 and rests on the ground. 



Genus Stegania, Dap. 



Middle-sized moths with the wings shaped 

 as in the last genus. Fore wings with only 



