EROTYI.A. S7 



Emf?ieh'a, Pliibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 254 (1822?). 

 Agrophila, Boisduval, Gen. Ind. Meth. p. 175 (1840) ; GuetK^e, 

 Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. p. 204 (1852), 7tom. prceocc. 



AntenncTS short, slender, setaceous ; palpi short, straight ; eyes 

 large. Thorax round, scaly ; collar rather large. Abdomen 

 rather long, slender, sub-conical, and carinated in the male, 

 Legs bare, rather stout. Wings entire, with long fringes ; fore- 

 wings oblong, smooth and silky, with the fringes unicolorous ; 

 hind-wings unicolorous above. 



Larva long, smooth, with only two pairs of pro-legs. It 

 lives on low plants in dry places. The pupi^ are enclosed in 

 small earthen cocoons. 



THE SPOTTED .SULPHUR MOTH. EROTYLA TRAP.EALIS. 



Pyralis trabealis, Scopoli, Ent. Carniol. p. 40, no 610 (1763). 

 Nodua sulphuralis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2), 



p. 881, no. 333 (1766). 

 Nodua arahica, Hufnagel, Berlin. Mag. iii. p. 143, no. 95 (1767). 

 Nodua sulphurea, Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien. p. 93, no. 6 (1776) ; Esper, Schmett. iv. (2) i. p. 576, 



Taf. 164, fig. 6 (1793 ?) ,; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iv. fig. 291 



(1799?). 

 Erastria sulphurea^ Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (3), p 251 



(1826). 

 Erastria su/p/turalis, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 



p. 117 (1830). 

 Emmelia irabealis, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 279 



(1881). 

 Agrophila sulphuralis, Hellins, Entom. Monthly Mag. iv. 



p. 115 (1867); Buckler, Lepid. Brit. Isl. vi. p. 89, pi. 100, 



figs. 5-5 c (1895). 



