.•^o European Butterflies and Moths. 



*I2. 6". Foniticceforinis (Esp.). — Body bluish-black; the under side of the palpi, the entire 

 4th segment of the abdomen, and sometimes the under side of the sth and 6th segments red ; 

 the broad hind margin of the fore-wings is also red. Expands about i inch. Widely distributed 

 throughout Southern and Central Europe from June to August, but local, and rarely common. 

 The larva lives for one or two winters in the trunks and roots of willows, living first in the tender 

 parts, and then in the wood and the recent shoots of the roots. The moth is figured at PL 20, 



Fig. 13- 



B. The transparent space on the inner margin of tite fore-wings docs not extend so far as the 

 transverse band, and is generally more or less densely scaled, especially in the female, sometimes so much 

 so that the transparency entirely disappears. The larvce live in the roots of loio plants. The moths 

 may be captured among their food-plants by siveeping. 



* 13. .b". Ichneianoniformis (Fabr.). — Body black ; the segments of the abdomen pretty uniformly 

 bordered with golden-yellow; the antennie suffused with rust-colour beneath and broadly yellowish 

 before the tips in the female ; costa of the fore-wings dark brown ; inner margin and hind margin 

 tinged with safifron-yellow ; a salTron-yellow spot behind the band. 6". MegilUeformis (Hiibn.) is 

 perhaps an aberration, in which only segments 2, 4, and 6 are bordered with yellow. E.xpands 

 about three-quarters of an inch. Widely distributed in Europe, North Africa, and in Northern 

 and Western Asia. It is found in flowery places in woods in July and August, but is not 

 very common. The larva lives in the roots of Ononis saliva. 



14. .hi". Uroceriformis (Tr.). — Resembles the last species ; but the 2nd, 4th, and 6th segments 

 of the abdomen are broadly, and the others very narrowly, bordered with pale lemon-yellow ; the 

 yellow portions of the fore-wings are paler, and golden-yellow rather than saffron-yellow ; and 

 the transparent space on the inner margin is smaller, and entirely covered with yellow 

 scales in the female. Expands about i inch. Inhabits Southern Europe in June, but is not 

 common. {S. Hymenopteriforinis, Bell., from Sicily, resembles this, but the fore-wings are much 

 darker — brownish fulvous, with two transparent spaces, in the male, and dark brown, only rather 

 lighter in the discoidal cell, in the female. The abdomen in the male is reddish-brown, with white 

 bands on the 2nd, 4th, and Sth segments, and the anal tuft is blackish, white beneath and 

 at the sides. In the female the abdomen is shining black, belted with white, and with the anal 

 tuft bluish-black.) 



15. 5. Himmighoffeni (Stand.). — Antennae, thorax, and the opaque portion of the fore-wings 

 bluish-black; the transparent portion of the latter tinged with yellow. Head and legs yellow; 

 thorax with three yellow stripes ; abdomen yellow, black at the base, and with six narrow black 

 stripes arranged in pairs, the two middle ones widest apart, and the two last at the root of the 

 anal tuft, which is black, with the centre yellow. Expands three-quarters of an inch. It is found 

 flying over flowers near Barcelona in May. 



16. .S". Masariforniis (Ochs.). — Body bluish-black ; thorax with two yellow longitudinal stripes; 

 abdomen dusted with yellow ; segments 2, 4, and 6 with broad bright yellow belts ; anal 

 tuft bright yellow, not much mixed with black ; the base of the palpi and the front coXc-e white ; 

 the margins and bands of the fore-wings black, the latter finely veined with pale yellow ; the 

 nervures in the outer transparent area, and the intermediate cells before the hind margin, pale 

 yellow. The transverse nervule of the hind-wings attenuated behind. Expands rather under 

 l^ inches. This species varies considerably in the colour and breadth of the bands, the rings 

 of the under surface, and the anal tuft ; and the next species is still more variable. Found 

 throughout Southern Europe, as far north as Austro-Hungary, and in Western Asia. 



17. .b". Anndlata (Zell.). — Bluisli-black ; segments 2, 4, and 6 of the abdomen (and also 



