238 Lloyd's natural history. 



Pygcera buccphala, Ochsenheimer, Scbmett. Eur. iii. p. 235 

 (1810); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 11 (1828); 

 Duponchel, Lepid. France, Suppl. iii. p. iii, pi. 11, fig. 

 4 (1836) ; Buckler, Larvce of Brit. Lepid. iii. pi. 37, fig. 

 4 (1889); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. iii. p. 161, pi. 113 



(1895)- 

 Phalera bucephala, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 153 



pl- 3ij fig- I (1S80). 

 The Buff-tip is common throughout Europe, as well as 

 in Northern and Western Asia. It expands 2^2 inches. The 

 fore-wings are light brown, interspersed with numerous silvery 

 scales, especially towards the base, with a large rounded 

 yellow spot at the tip, slightly suffused with ochreous externally, 

 and bounded on the inner side by two rust-coloured undulating 



The Buflf-tip. 



transverse lines, which are continued to the inner-margin. 

 From this large yellow spot is derived the popular name by 

 which the Moth is known. There are one or two other rusty 

 transverse lines, in addition to those mentioned above. The 

 fringe is yellowish, varied with rusty-red and bounded by a 

 series of small crescentic spots of the same colour internally. 

 The hind-wings are uniform yellowish-white. The thorax is 



