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expanded into spots in cell la of the fore 

 wings. There is a large central spot and 

 light and dark brown fringes. It is found in 

 Southern and South-Central Europe in July. 

 The larva is white and brown, passing into 

 violet, with three brown sinuated lateral lines 

 and a white spiny hump on the last segment. 

 It feeds on meadow sage. 



Genus Cleogene, Boisd. 



Middle-sized, slender unicolorous moths, not 

 darkly dusted, with the fore wings narrow at 

 the base, expanded externally, pointed, with 

 slightly convex margins and a rounded hinder 

 angle. The males are without a groove. The 

 hind wings are rounded, least at the costa, 

 and are slightly contracted on the hind margin 

 between nervures 4 and 6. The body is 

 smoothly scaled ; the palpi erect and projecting 

 slightly beyond the head. Antennae slender 

 with fine pectinations in the males, diminish- 

 ing towards the tip; slightly serrated in the 

 females. Legs thin, hind tibiae with two 

 pairs of spurs. Nervures 3 and 4, 6 and 7 of 

 the fore wings are separate, 8 and 9 rise in 

 a stalk from 7, 10 is next to 7, and touches 

 the stalk of 8 and 9; 11 touches 12 and closely 

 approaches 10. Nervures 3 and 4, 6 and 7 

 of the hind wings are separate, the latter very 

 close to one another; 5 is slender; and 8 lies 

 on half of the anterior border of the discoidal 

 cell. 



C. lutearia, Fabr. is bright ochre-yellow, 

 with blackish antennse. The male flies in 

 meadows in the day-time, whilst the female 

 remains hidden in the grass. It is found in 

 the Alps, especially at Valais and Piedmont. 



C. niveata. Scop, is white, thickly dusted 

 with pale brownish especially on the costa 

 and on the nervures of the fore wings, with 

 a dark marginal line. It is found in Alpine 

 meadows in Switzerland and Austria. 



Genus Scoria, Steph. 



Large slender, unicolorous white moths 

 with expanded triangular fore wings, and 

 straight-margined hind wings, with strongly 

 projecting rounded apices. Thorax smooth 

 and hairy. Palpi with a pointed terminal seg- 

 ment, projecting horizontally; proboscis spiral. 

 Antennas simply setiform in both sexes, and 



very shortly ciliated in the males. Legs long 

 and thin, the hind tibiae witli two pairs of 

 spurs. Nervures 3 and 4, 6 and 7 of the fore 

 wings are separate; 8 and g rise in a stalk 

 from 7; and 10 touches the stalk; 11 and 12 

 are separate. Nervures 3 and 4 of the hind 

 wings are separate; 6 and 7 rise from a point; 



5 is very slender and 8 is free at the base. 

 The only species is: — • 



S. lineata. Scop. The Black-veined Moth. 

 This is white, with the subcostal nervure at the 

 base, a few spots near the apex on the fringes 

 and the antennae black. It is found through- 

 out the greater part of Europe except the 

 North in June and July. The larva is thick- 

 ened posteriorly and ends in a point. It is 

 yellowish or grey with a dark brown dorsal 

 line, a few black spots beside it, and a wrinkled 

 indistinct lateral line. There are two dark 

 stripes on the head. It feeds on plantain and 

 other low plants. The pupa is yellowish, 

 darker in front and behind, with two crooked 

 hooks on the cephalic extremity and a simple 

 anal point. It forms on the food plant a whit- 

 ish cocoon similar to that of the Zygmiida, 



Genus Aspilates, Treit. 



Middle-sized moths with triangular, some- 

 what convex fore wings rather produced and 

 pointed at the apex, but rounded at the hinder 

 angle. The hind wings are expanded and 

 rounded. There is no groove on the under side 

 of the wings of the males. Body with depressed 

 scales; thorax smoothly hairy; palpi slender 

 and projecting horizontally, thin; proboscis 

 spiral. The antennae of the males have a thick 

 shaft and closely-set pectinations, gradually 

 diminishing in length towards the end; in the 

 females they are serrated. The hind tibiae 

 have two pairs of spurs. Nervures 3 and 4, 



6 and 7 of the fore wings are separate, 8 and 

 9 rise in a stem from 7, and 10 touches the 

 stem. Nervures 3 and 4 of the hind wings 

 are separate; 6 and 7 are separate or rise 

 from a point (gilvaria). When at rest the 

 wings lie horizontally upon one another. The 

 females are stouter and more sluggish than 

 the males. 



A. gilvaria, W. V. The Straw Belle 

 is straw-coloured, sparsely dusted with brown, 

 with a brown central dot on all the wings and 



