tyS Lloyd's NXTORAt HiSton'i'. 



The variety N. fuliginalis has the " wings smoky-bluish^ 

 Avith the base, and a very obscure central line, darker." 

 '{Step he /IS.) 



The larva has fourteen legs, and a black head. The sides 

 of the body are reddish-blue, with light brown tubercles and 

 hairs. On the back is a rather broad, interrupted, white band, 

 striped with slate-colour in the middle. It is darkest on seg- 

 ments 5, 7, 9, and lo, on which it takes the form of double 

 crescents. ■ ^ 



It feeds on sloe, white-thorn, mountain ash, &:c. 



The pupa is brown and thickened, depressed in the middle. 

 It is enclosed in a silky cocoon. 



THE SCARCE BLACK ARCHES. NOLA ^RUGULA. 



Phalcena ceriigula, Hiibner, Vogel u. Schmett. Taf, 6i (1792). 

 Pyralis centonalis, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. vi. fig. 15 (1796). 

 Hercyfia centonalis^ Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vii. p. 193 



(1829). 

 Nola ceutoiialis, Duponchel, Lepid. France, viii. (2) p. 275, pi. 



228, fig. 5 (1831); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 



393 (1881); Buckler, Larv?e of Brit. Lepid. iii. p. 44, pi. 



43, fig. 6 (1889); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. ii. p. 190, pi. 



65, figs. 4. 4^^-^(1894). 

 Nola cerugtda, Kirby, Cat. Lepid. Heter. i. p. 374 (1892). 



The Scarce Black Arches. 



This little Moth is only found in Europe. It expands about 

 ^4 inch. The fore-wings are glossy white, with three yellowish-- 



