^30 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Bombyx titcis, Fabncius, lint. Syst. iii. (i) p. 434, no. 84(1793). 



Bombyx dodonaa^ Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii. fig. 8 (1800?) ; 

 Godart, Lepid. France, iv. p. 216, pi. 20, fig. 5 (1822). 



Njtodonta dodoncea, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 80 

 (1810). 



Chaonia dodonea, Stephens, III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 30 

 (1828). 



Drynioiiia dodoiicea^ Curtis, Brit. Ent. xvi. pi. 755 (1839); 

 Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 142 (1880); Buck- 

 ler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 158, pi. 34, fig. 4 (1887); 

 Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. iii. p. 133, pi. 109, figs, i, \a-g 



(iS95)- 

 Drymonia trimacula^ Kirby, Cat. Lepid. Heter. i. p. 571 (1892). 



The Marbled Brown is common in most parts of Europe. 

 It measures from i^ to nearly i^ inch across the wings. 

 The fore-wings are brownish-grey, with the anterior transverse 

 line filled in with yellowish-grey, and the hinder one filled with 

 white. The wings are suffused more or less with white towards 

 the base, especially on the nervures. There is no central 



The Marbled Brown. 



lunule and the sub-marginal line is indistinct. The basal and 

 marginal areas are also often more or less dusted with whitish, 

 the latter as far as a spot on the costa. The fringes are whitish- 

 grey spotted with dusky. The hind-wings are brownish-grey 

 with a light central streak. The abdomen is ochre-yellow, and 



