EUPLOCAMUS. 



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ATYCHIA APPENDICULATA. 



[Plate CLVL, Fig i.) 



sphinx appendiculata, Esper, Schmett. ii. (2), p. 227, Taf. 35. 



figs. 5, 6(1788?). .. ^ / ^ 



sphinx chimcBra, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. 11. fig. i (i797)- 

 Noctua chimccra, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iv. figs. 3^4, S^S 

 (1S04?). 

 This Moth is found in South-eastern Europe and Western 

 Asia. It expands three-quarters of an inch. 



The fore-wings are dark brown, dusted with ochre-yellow in 

 the male, with an oclire-yellow longitudinal stripe from the 

 base extending two-thirds across the wings, and expanded m 

 its o'uter part. The hind-wings are dark brown, with a white 

 band near the base, which does not reach either the costa or 

 inner mar-in. The female has darker fore-wmgs, with a 

 coppery lustre, and a narrow whitish costa and faintly indi- 

 cated longitudinal stripe; but no light spot on the hind-wings. 



GENUS EUPLOCAMUS. (TiueidcB.) 

 Euplocamus, LatreiUe, Gen. Crust. Ins. iv. p. 223 (1809); Von 

 Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl. (2), 11. (i), p. 35 (1870). 

 The species included in this genus are among the largest of 

 the European TinecE. They are conspicuously coloured, with 

 larc^e white or coloured spots and markings on a black ground ; 

 and the antennce of the males are furnished with very long 

 diverging cilia. The larv.^ live in rotten trees and tree-fungi 

 in spring, and the moths appear in summer. 



EUPLOCAMUS BIENEKTI. 

 {Plate CLVIIL, Fig. 2.) 

 Euplocamus bicncrti, Staudinger, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. xiv. p. 207 

 (1870); Lederer, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 24, pi- 2, 

 figs. II, 12 (1872). 



