134 CARADRININA [hadena 



whitish, dark-edged above ; head and plate of 2 dark brown, 

 whitish-streaked : on wheat-£!:rains, grasses, Taraxacum, etc. ; 

 8-3. 



21. H. ochroleuca, Esp. 33-35 mm. Antennae in S tri- 

 angular-dentate. Forewings light ochreous, more or less 

 brownish-tinged, especially on postmedian band ; lines whitish, 

 first and second dentate, closely approximated or connected 

 below middle ; median shade grey, indistinct ; spots hardly 

 defined, orbicular indistinctly darker-outlined ; cilia distinctly 

 barred. Hindwings fuscous-whitish ; a broad rather dark fus- 

 cous terminal band. 



England to York, local ; C. Europe, Asia Minor ; 8. Larva 

 whitish-green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines broad, whitish ; sub- 

 spiracular whitish, dark-edged above; dots black; head pale 

 green : on seeds of Dactylis ; 5, 6. 



22. H. ophiogramma, Esp. 31-33 mm. Thorax pale brown- 

 ish-ochreous, with black transverse anterior line. Forewings 

 pale brownish-ochreous ; an irregularly triangular dark brown 

 costal patch extending from base to -| and reaching more than 

 half across wing, lower extremity blackish and edged with 

 whitish suffusion ; reniform pale ; subterminal line partly 

 lirown-edged ; a fuscous median terminal spot ; a dark fuscous 

 terminal dash above tornus, marked with a whitish subterminal 

 spot. Hindwings pale fuscous, somewhat darker posteriorly. 



Britain to Kirkcudbright, N. and E. Ireland, local; C. 

 Europe, NW. Asia ; 6, 7. Larva dull pinkish - ochreous ; 

 spiracular line whitish ; head dark brown ; plate of 2 brown : 

 in stems and amongst roots of Phalaris arundinacea ; 8-5. 



23. H. pabulatricula, Brh. (connexa, Bkh.) 31-36 mm. 

 Forewings grey-whitish, anteriorly somewhat mixed with light 

 bi'own ; a black median dash from base, and another from inner 

 margin near base, surrounded by a brown suffusion ; median 

 area below a black submedian dash dark brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform partly edged with dark fuscous, separated by a brown 

 suffusion; subterminal line faintly brownish -edged. Hind- 

 wings fuscous, darker posteriorly. 



Norfolk to Kirkcudbright, local ; EC. Europe ; 6, 7. Larva 

 on Phalaris arundinacea (?) ; 4, 5. 



24. H. leucostigma, lib. (fibrosa, Hb.) 34-37 mm. Fore- 

 wings brown, coppery-tinged, variable in intensity, lighter 

 towards dorsum and on postmedian band, darkest along ter- 

 men ; lines indistinct; orbicular indistinctly dark - outHned ; 

 reniform dark-outlined, more or less whitish-ochreous or whitish 



