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GENUS II. — ENDAGRIA (BOISD.). 



Small moths, with rather slender bodies, which are longest in the female ; the wings are 

 short and broad ; the fore-wings have pale spots, and their tips are nearly square. The palpi 

 extend beyond the head. The commonest species, E. Paiitherina (Hiibn.), has olive-grey fore- 

 wings, with large angular white spots, more or less running into one another, and white borders ; 

 the fringes are spotted with grey and white. Hind-wings brownish-grey, with whitish borders and 

 spotted fringes. The larva is supposed to feed on the roots of plants. E.xpands nearly i inch. 

 Common in South Europe and Western Asia ; it is rare north of the Alps, but has been met 

 with occasionally as far north as Kreuznach. The variety Marniorata (Ramb.), from Andalusia, is 

 paler, and nearly twice as large. E. Psychidion (Staud.), from Greece and Asia Minor, is of the 

 size of a small Pantheriiia, and unicolorous smoky-brown ; E. Salicicala (Eversm.), from South 

 Russia, has greyish-white fore-wings, with three brown dots in the male, and brown hind-wings. 



GENUS in. — ZEUZERA (LATR.). 



Wings rather pointed, with the hind margin long; palpi very short; abdomen of the female 

 furnished with an ovipositor. The only European species, * Z. Aisculi, Linn. {JVood Leopard 

 Moth), is white, with many small round or egg-shaped steel-blue spots on the wings and thorax ; 

 those on the hind-wings fainter. Expands from 2 to 2i- inches. Widely distributed in Central 

 Europe, and on the shores of the Mediterranean, but nowhere very common ; it occurs in July and 

 August. The larva is cylindrical ; yellow, with the warts, head, thoracic shield, and anal fold black. 

 It lives in the trunks and branches of ash, young apple-trees, &c., and would be a destructive 

 insect in orchards, if it was commoner. The moth and larva are figured at PL 26, Fig. 2, a, b. 



GENUS IV.— PHR.\GMATzECIA (NEW.M.). 



Fore-wings of nearly uniform breadth, with a short hind margin ; palpi very small, abdomen 

 long and slender, especially in the female. The larva is cylindrical, and smooth beneath. The 

 only European species,*/". Aruudiiiis {yiixhn), has yellowish-white fore-wings, dusted with blackish 

 between the nervures, and dull whitish hind-wings. Expands from l^ to if inches. It occurs 

 in June and July in marshes throughout Central Europe, but is very local, and generally scarce. 

 The larva is yellowish, with the back brownish, intersected with a whitish line ; the head and 

 thoracic shield are brown. It lives in the stems of the reed. 



GENUS v. — STYGIA (l..\TR.). 



Wings rather pointed, with the hind margin long ; antennae short and bipectinated in both 

 sexes ; body stout, covered with thick hair ; abdomen rather long, crested at the sides, and tufted 

 at the extremity. Tongue nearly obsolete; palpi stout, obtuse, and scaly, projecting a little 

 beyond the head. The male of the commonest species, 5. Anstralis (Latr.), has brownish fore- 

 wings, varied with whitish-grey, and white hind-wings, bordered with blackish. The female has 

 reddish-yellow fore-wings, more or less variegated with brownish, and the head, collar, and 

 upper side of the thora.x entirely fulvous. (In the male they are brownish.) Hind-wings black, 

 with a large white spot on the disc. Expands about i inch. It is common in South France 

 and Spain in June and July. In .S. Cokliica (Herr.-Schaff.), from South Russia and Asia Minor, 

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