44 MAl'STELLATA. LEriDOP TKliA, 



Genus CCLXIX.— Eurrhypara, Hilhner. 



Palpi moderate, maxillary small, acute ; labial remote, horizontal, triarticu- 

 late, densely clothed with elongate scales forming an acute cone and conceal- 

 ing the terminal joint; basal joint minute, curved, second elongate, subcy- 

 lindric, apical ovate-subacute : maxilla: elongate. Antenna short, simple in 

 both sexes, pubescent beneath: head small, space between the antenns 

 clothed with rough scales : thorax rather stout, spotted : wings placed in a 

 triangle during repose ; anterior acute, with the hinder margin entire and 

 rounded ; posterior ovate-triangular entire ; all with the limb dark, the disc 

 spotted with dusky on a white ground: abdomen moderately long, annulated, 

 with a tuft at the apex : legs rather short, not very slender ; posterior tibia 

 with two pair of spurs. Larva naked, with sixteen legs : pupa inclosed in 

 a silken cocoon in a convoluted leaf. 



The dark limb and spotted disc of the pale wings in Eurrhypara 

 will instantly enable the reader to detect the only indigenous species 

 of this genus, to which the yellow spotted thorax and abdominal 

 rings, as well as the black legs lineated with yellow, may be added, 

 exclusively of the less apparent diversities in the structure of the 

 palpi, Sic, and the general habit of the insect. 



Sp. 1. Urticata. Alis albis, limbo fascia communi repandd ex maculis conjluen- 

 tibus, costwque basi et maculis anticarum nigro-fuscis, tkorace abdominis seg~ 

 mentorum marginibus anoquejlavis. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc 1 — 3 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. Urticata. Linne.— Donovan, x. pi. 349./. 2.— Botys Urticata. Steph. 

 Catal. ii. 164. No. 6806. 



Wings white ; anterior with the costa and three or four largish irregular 

 blotches at the base, a rounded one adjoining the costa about the middle, 

 followed by a repanded band of more or less confluent and dissimilar spots, 

 and a broad border on the hinder margins (faintly interrupted by pale ner- 

 vures), and the cilia blackish-brown ; posterior with a spot at the base, an 

 irregular bold waved streak behind the middle, and the hinder margin 

 blackish-brown, the latter denticulated inwardly with white; cilia blackish- 

 brown at the base, the tip silvery-white : head and thorax yellow ; abdomen 

 black, with yellowish rings, its apex yellow. 



The caterpillar feeds on nettles (Urticce dioica et urens), bindweed {Convol- 

 vvlus scpium), red currant {Ribes rubrum), &c. : it is whitish-brown, with 

 a greenish tinge, and on the back are two yellowish streaks ; the head is 

 black : the pupa is inclosed in a buff-coloured cocoon, and in May or early 

 in June the imago appears. 



Extremely abundant in gardens and hedges within the mctropo- 



