370 J.EP/VOPTERA. 



longer hairs on the hack anil sides of the segments ; liead 

 pale honey-jellow with the jaws darker. 



In May in the heart-shoots of Hicraclum inloscUa. 

 (Fi-ey.) 



Pl'TA slender, bone-yellow ; at the extremities reddish- 

 brown, suspended to a leaf on the outer portion of the food- 

 plant. (Frey.) 



This moth is excessively local with us, occurring in a few 

 places on chalk hills and adjacent greensand, but is verj- 

 little known. Its habits seem to be as in the allied species. 

 Neither larva nor pupa has been noticed here, although the 

 pretty Hieraciuvi jnloseUa is abundant, and has often been 

 carefully examined. Indeed there is much that is unsatis- 

 factory in our knowledge — or want thereof — in this whole 

 group. The present species is found near Dover and Maid- 

 stone, Kent; Micklehaiu and Box Hill, Surrey; Isle of 

 Portland, Dorset ; and was formerly- found at the Devil's 

 Ditch, Newmarket, Cambs. This appears to be the extent 

 of its r-inge in these Islands. Abroad it is tolerably widely 

 distributed through Central and Northern Europe, South 

 East France, the Northern half of Italy, the Trans-Caspian 

 region, and Armenia. 



5. O. teucrii, Greening, South; heterodactylus. 

 Haw? — Expanse | to | inch (15-19 mm.). Fore wings 

 rather broad behind, the points of the lobes long and 

 drooping ; glossy blackis^h-brown with black dots round the 

 lobes, the stripes broad, yellow-white. Hind wings dark 

 brown with a large black-brown hind tuft. 



Antenn;v simple, slender, black-brown, faintly ringed with 

 white ; palpi very small and slender, horizontal, dark brown, 

 head and thorax umbreous, dusted with yellow-brown ; 

 abdomen dark brown, clouded at the base and in some 

 degree at the sides, with broad white streaks. Fore wings 

 narrow, but decidedly broadened behind ; costa hollowed to 



