154 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



tive to cotton in Egypt, and other countries where cotton is 

 grown. 



GENUS HYLOPHILA. 



Hylophila^ Iliibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 396 (1827?); 



Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 65 (1834). 

 Halias^ Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vii. p. 227 (1829), viii. p. 3 



(1830); Curtis, Brit. Ent. xii. pi. 575 (1835). 

 Chlo'ephora^ Stephens, Cat. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 168 (1829). 



The larger size and streaked wings of the species of this 

 genus will prevent their being confounded with Earias. Our 

 two species differ somewhat in shape and neuration, and some 

 authors treat them as belonging to different genera. In that 

 case, Curtis having specified H. bicolorana as the type of 

 Halias^ H. prasinana will remain as the type of Hylophila. 



THE GREEN SILVER-LINES. HYLOPHILA PRASINANA. 

 i^Plate LXXXVII. Figs. 3 [imago)^ 4 {Jai-va).) 



Toririx prasi?iana^ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 530, no. 



202 (1758) ; id. Faun. Suec. p. 342 (1761); Hiibner, Eur. 



Schmett. vii. fig. 158 (1803). 

 Pyralis fagana^ Fabiicius, Spec. Ins. p. 276, no. 5 (1781). 

 Pyralis sylvana^ Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (2) p. 244, no. 6 



(1794). 

 Halias prasinana^ Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. viii. p. 4 (1830); 

 Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 295, pi. 42, fig. 9, 

 a-d{\ZZ\)\ Barrett, Lepid. of Brit. Isl. ii. p. 175, pi. 64, 



figs. 5> 5^5 ^(1894). 

 Hylophila prasi/iana, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 66 



(1834). 

 The present species is found throughout Europe and 

 Northern A'iia. It expands from somewhat more than an 

 inch to an inch and a half. The fore- wings are light green, 



