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LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Var. Hepialus thuknsis. 



Hepialus humuli, var. tJmlensis^ Crotch, Entoiii. ii., p. 176 



(1865). 

 Hepialus JiuniuU^ var. Knaggs, Entom. Annual (1865), p. 98 ; 



Milliere, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon. (2), xvii., p. 11, pi. 94 



(iii.), figs. 5,6 (1869.) 

 Hepialus humuli^ var. hethlandica^ Staudinger, Cat. Lepid. 



Eur. (ed. ii.), p. 60, no. 784 (1871); Weir, Entom., xiii., 



P- 25', pi. 3(i8So). 



The Ghost Swift {Hepialus humuli). Male. 



The Ghost Swift. Female. 



The Ghost Motli is common throughout Europe. It 

 expands from one and a half to two and a half inches. 



The antennas are reddish-brown ; the head, thorax, and 

 abdomen are yellowish-grey. The wings are lanceolate, shining 

 white above in the male, and dark I'lcnvn bencatli. \\\ the 



