50 LEPIDOPTERA. 



stated that lie beat it out of a hedge, that it fell and settled 

 on a blade of grass, and was rather restless, yet allowed itself 

 to be boxed. 



It inhabits most parts of Southern Europe, Carniola, 

 Southern Switzerland, Crete, Asia Minor, and Northern 

 Africa. It seems hardly desirable to include this as a 

 British species on the occurrence of a single specimen, 

 which may very possibly have been accidentally introduced. 

 Should it really have effected a settlement in this country, 

 evidence will doubtless soon be forthcoming.] 



[Calophasia linarise, Schiff. ; lunula, Stand. Cat. — 

 Also a rather small species — 1£ inch in expanse — and very 

 pretty, bearing a sort of resemblance to Eremobia ochroleuca. 

 Antennas simple, ciliated, brown with a white tuft at the base ; 

 head white, barred in front with black ; collar white, edged 

 with pale brown, and sharply twice barred with dark brown ; 

 thorax pale brown ; fore wings rather narrow but dilated 

 toward the apex and hind margin, which are unusually 

 rounded ; colour greyish-white, much clouded with pale 

 olive-brown ; along the median nervure at the base is a 

 slender black streak ; first line double, arranged into two 

 large curves which have between them, on the median 

 nervure, a white streak ; second line arising on the dorsal 

 margin only just beyond the first, double, olive-brown, 

 forming one grand curve to the middle of the wing, then 

 obliterated, but near the costa again visible; the stripe 

 enclosed in each double line is brownish-white ; central 

 shade pale olive-brown ; orbicular stigma flattened, white, 

 sharply edged with black ; reniform stigma erect, narrow, 

 pure white, edged with black ; claviform flattened, white, 

 edged with black ; beyond is a series of six or seven thickened 

 black lines between nervures, running into the hind margin, 

 some of them broken by a wavy white clouding which seems 

 to represent the subterminal line ; all these last markings lie 

 jn an oblique shade of olive-brown which runs into the apex 



