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leaves and young shoots of Verla><cum niynun. Mr. Barney's 

 larvtB were found feeding in flower heads. 



Pupa yellow, in a red-brown cocoon among debris. 



This species, so far as I am aware, has never been captured 

 in the moth state in these Islands. The only instance of its 

 occurrence known to me is the discovery of a number of 

 larvEe feeding in the heads of the mulleins in a i-ough field 

 near Dawlish, Devon, about the year 1876, by the Rev. 

 Henry Burney. From larvaj there collected Mr. Burney 

 reared eleven specimens of the moth. These remained un- 

 noticed for ten years, being supposed to belong to one of our 

 common species, and it was only in 1886 that their identity 

 was discovered and announced in the " Entomologist 3 

 Monthly Magazine," vol. xxii. page 145. There seems to be 

 a cause for fear that the '• rough field " has passed under the 

 hands of the builder, yet a close search in the same portion 

 of South Devon ought to result in the re-discovery of this 

 species, whicli has a considerable range abroad, through 

 Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor and the Barbary 

 States in North Africa. 



10. B. verbascalis, <St'7ii^. — -Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 shining tawny-yellow, clouded with dark brown; with three 

 transverse black-brown lines, the second excessively angu- 

 lated and bent outward. Hind wings similar in colour and 

 markings. 



Antennas of the male simple, bronzy brown ; palpi por- 

 rected, rather blunt, yellow-brown ; head and thorax tawny 

 brown ; abdomen slender, pale ochreous, with a very narrow 

 whitish edging to each segment. Fore wings only moderately 

 elongated ; costa arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin very straight and rather oblique, with the anal angle 

 well formed ; colour rich tawny yellow clouded with brown 

 dusting, especially so along the costal area ; first line erect, 

 once angulated, black-brown; touching it a faint similar ring 



