2l6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Canaries, the Azores ; Egypt, Morocco aud other parts of 

 Northern Africa, the Congo State and Natal. 



15. B. forficalis, L. — Expanse 1 to l^^inch. Fore wings 

 rather narrow and pointed ; pale straw-colour with long 

 oblique palo brown shades and lines. Hind wings dull white 

 with a faint slender brown transverse line. 



Antennie of the male simple, pale brown, back of the shaft 

 white ; palpi not very long, slightly drooping, tufted and 

 pointed ; head and thorax pale brownish-drab ; abdomen 

 long and slender, tapering, whitish-drab. Fore wings long 

 and pointed ; costa arched beyond the middle ; apex angu- 

 lated; hind margin veiy oblique and slightly curved; the 

 usual lines altered into three double red-brown stripes 

 running very obliquely outward, the middle one proceeding 

 straight into the apex of the wing and there being blackened ; 

 discal spot elongated, red-brown, with a whitish streak in 

 its base ; through this runs the altered first line, the second, 

 quite parallel, being that which runs to the apex ; the third, 

 fainter, more slender, and almost ]iarallel, evidently repre- 

 sents the usual subterminal line ; another pale brown line 

 lies along the hind margin ; cilia straw-colour. Hind wings 

 short but broad and fully rounded ; yellowish-white, with 

 a partial transverse brown line beyond the middle, and a 

 slender one along the hind margin ; cilia yellowish-white. 

 Female similar, but with the body shorter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky whitish-brown, browner 

 along the costa ; discal spot smoky-brown ; beyond it is a 

 line of black dusting placed in the v.sual position of a second 

 line, not in that of the upperside. Hind wings yellowish- 

 white with a comj)lete brown line beyond the middle. Body 

 and legs yellow-brown. 



On the wing in May, June, July, and August, probably in 

 two generations. 



Larva stout, fusiform, slightly hairy; head shining 

 brownish -green, mouth dark brown ; a brown horny plate 



