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BRITISH AXD EUROPEAN BCTTERELIES AXD MOTHS. 



M. aestimaria, Hiibn. is pale yellowish 

 grey, darker in the marginal area, with waved 

 hind margins and a sharply defined black 

 marginal line. The posterior transverse line is 

 blackish brown and double, suffused with 

 whitish towards the base. The antennae are 

 ciliated in the male. It is found in Southern 

 Europe in May and again in the Autumn. 



M. liturata, Linn. Tlie Tawny-barred 

 Angle is violet -grey, darkly sprinkled, with 

 three (on the hind wings two) rather distinct 

 fine dark parallel transverse lines, the posterior 

 of which are broadly suffused with tawny 

 towards the hind margins. Costa of the fore 

 wings with a yellow spot, shaded with brown 

 towards the hind margin; no submarginal 

 line; a very indistinct dark marginal line 

 slightly curved inwards towards the costa of 

 the fore wings, and a slight projection on 

 nervure 4 of the hind wings. Fringes violet- 

 grey, whitish at the apex of the fore wings 

 and between the nervures of the hind wings. 

 Head and collar tawny, .body grey except the 

 tip which is yellowish. It is found in most 

 parts of Europe, especially in fir woods, in 

 May and August. The larva is green with a 

 darker dorsal line bounded with lighter on the 

 sides and a dark lateral line above the yellow 

 spiracles. It lives in Summer on fir and 

 pine. The pupa is blackish brown and is 

 hidden under moss. 



Genus Ploseria, Bolsd. 



Middle-sized, slender moths with the fore 

 wings very wide externally, and the costa and 

 inner margin of almost equal length. Hind 

 wings rather long, rounded below the tips. 

 The female is smaller and stouter than the 

 male. On all the wings the discoidal cell is 

 very broad with a transverse nervure slightly 

 curved inwards; nervures 3 and 4, 6 and 7 

 are separate. Nervures la and ib of the hind 

 wings are wide apart ; 5 is slender ; 8 is free 

 at the base. Palpi slender, rising straight up, 

 with a cylindrical terminal joint. Proboscis 

 spiral. Antennae setiform in both sexes, ciliated 

 in the male. Hind tibia; with two pairs of 

 long spurs. The only species is:^ 



P. diversata, W. V. Fore wings greyish 

 brown with a central band formed by two 

 zigzag transverse lines, becoming light on both 



sides towards the costa, and a large central 

 dot. Hind wings orange, dusted with grey, 

 with more or less distinct transverse lines and 

 a central dot. It is found in Central and 

 Northern Europe, except the West, and flies 

 in the sunshine in early Spring. The larva is 

 ashy grey with fine waved lines, a row of 

 lozenge-shaped dorsal spots, edged with black, 

 and a black lateral dot on segments 4 and 5. 

 It lives on poplar in May and June. The pupa 

 is placed between the leaves. 



Genus Hybernia, Latr. 



Large and middle-sized, finely scaled moths, 

 the males with almost triangular fore wings, 

 slightly rounded apices and rounded hinder 

 angles. Hind wings elongated, and rounded, 

 with long fringes. The arrangement of the 

 nervures of the fore wings is very variable. 

 On the hind wings nervure la runs close to 

 the inner margin and ends in the middle of 

 it; lb is close to it but extends to the anal 

 angle, 3 and 4, 6 and 7 are separate; 5 is 

 very slender ; 8 rises from the base, and at 

 its commencement runs close to the front 

 margin of the discoidal cell. Palpi slender, 

 somewhat drooping, with a short obtuse ter- 

 minal joint. Proboscis thin and spiral. Antennae 

 very slender in the males, with thin almost 

 horizontal pectinations shorter at the base; 

 setiform in the females. The females have 

 short or long rudiments of wings and a pro- 

 jecting ovipositor. The hind tibias have two 

 pairs of spurs. 



H. rupicapraria, W. V. The Early Moth. 

 Fore wings brownish grey, darker between 

 the two transverse lines, the anterior of which 

 is often indistinct and the posterior dentated 

 on the nervures. They are suffused with 

 lighter towards the hind margins, with a large 

 central spot, fine dots on the marginal line 

 between the nervures and dark fringes in the 

 basal half. Hind wings light brownish grey 

 with a faint central dot, a similar transverse 

 line through the middle and a dotted mar- 

 ginal line between the nervures. The body is 

 brow-nish grey. The rudimentary wings of the 

 females are half the length of the body, the 

 fore wings being pointed at the apices and 

 with a dark central band. It is common in 

 Central Europe in February and March and 



