140 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



I'his genus includes only a few small species which are con- 

 fined to South Europe and Western Asia. The antennae are 

 pectinated and rather short, the body and legs very pilose, 

 the wings small, and the abdomen very long, extending much 

 beyond the hind-wings, and tufted on the sides and at the 

 extremity. 



STYGIA AUSTRALIS. 



{Plate CXXIV., Fig. 3.) 



Slygia australe^ Latreille, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi., p. 262, 



(1803). 



Stygia australis^ Latreille, op.cit. xxiv., p. 185 (1805); id. Hist. 

 Nat. Crust. Ins., xiv., p. 141 (1805) ; id. Gen. Crust. Ins. i., 

 pi. 14, figs. 4, 5 (1806); iv., p. 215 (1809); Godart, 

 Lepid. France, iii , p. 169, pi. 22, fig. 19 (1821); Kirby, 

 Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 113 (1880). 



Bonihyx terebellum, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii., fig. 244 (1804). 



Chinu^ra kiicomelas^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii., p. 6 

 (1808). 



This species is common in Southern Europe. It expands 

 about an inch. The head and thorax are brownish-yellow, and 

 so are the antennte. The abdomen is elongated, blue-black in 

 colour with a small anal tuft. The fore-wings are narrow, 

 brownish in the male, with greyish-white markings, and the 

 hind-wings are rounded, blue-black, with a large white spot in 

 the centre. In the female the fore-wings are reddish-yellow, 

 varied with brownish, and the hind-wings are coloured as in 

 the male. 



The larva, which is smooth and whitish, with the head and 

 thoracic segments yellowish, lives in the roots and stalks of 

 Eclihcm italicmn. 



