2i6 Lloyd's natural history. 



European Boarmiidce in colour and markings. The antennaj 

 are strongly pectinated for two-thirds of their length in the male, 

 and ciliated in the female. The palpi are thick and ascending, 

 with the third joint expanded. The abdomen of the male is 

 long and slightly conical, and in the female depressed and 

 obtuse. The hind tibiae are more or less swollen, with the last 

 pair of spurs very short. The wings are broad and strongly 

 dentated. 



The larvae are short and thick, with the fourth segment 

 swollen, and the abdomen terminating in two small points ; the 

 head is small and round. They feed on trees. 



BRONCHELIA SCOLOPACEA. 

 {Plate CXLVIL, Fig. 2.) 



Noctua scolopacea, Drury, 111, Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 22, fig. i (1773); 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 174, fig. D (1777). 

 Aids scolopacea, Duncan, Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 218, pi. 27, 



fig. 2 (1841). 

 Bronchelia scolopacea, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxi. 



p. 453, no. 7 (i860). 



This species is a native of Jamaica. It expands about three 

 inches and a half. 



The ground colour is brownish-grey. The wings are crossed 

 by a number of waved blackish transverse lines, partly bordered 

 with light brown and ash-colour. Between the lines the 

 ground-colour is thickly speckled with dark brown. On the 

 under side, the colour inclines to light greyish-yellow, and the 

 greater part of the outer half of the fore-wings is marked with 

 faint dark brown lines and streaks ; and the hind-wings are 

 slightly clouded with dark brown towards the tips. All the 

 wings are deeply dentated. 



