I 50 European Butterflies and Moths. 



which is thinly hairy, black, with a broad sulphur-yellow stripe on the back, a whitish stripe 

 on the sides, and red dashes between these ; there is a very long black fleshy tubercle on 

 the 5th secernent, and a small prominence on the 12th. It feeds on elm, but also on sloe, 

 roses, &c., and is figured, with the moth, at PI. 32, Fig. 7, a, b. 



6. A. Cnspis (Hiibn.). — Very like the two last species, but the fore-wings are of a more 

 bluish ashy-grey, clouded with darker, and the hind-wings are more thickly dusted with grey 

 in both sexes. Expands from li to if inches. It inhabits the greater part of Central 

 liurope (except Britain) and Northern Asia in June, but is always scarce. The larva resembles 

 that of A. Psi, but has a long and thick tuft of black hair on the 5th segment instead of 

 a fleshy tubercle. It lives exclusively on alder in August and September. 



*/. A. Menyanthidis (View.). — Fore-wings pale grey or bluish-grey, clouded with darker, 

 with short black longitudinal streaks running from the base and above the hinder angle ; the 

 transverse lines are indistinctly double, the elbowed line slightly dentated, filled up with whitish, 

 and shaded behind with darker ; the orbicular stigma is a pale spot surrounded with darker, 

 and the reniform stigma is indistinct. The hind-wings are dusted with brown. The English 

 variety Salicis (Curt.) is nearly unicolorous dark grey. Expands about li inches. Common 

 in Northern and Central Europe (except France) from May to July, inhabiting damp moors. 

 The larva is black, with hairy warts, and a broad dark red stripe on the sides. It feeds on 

 Vaccinium Oxyococcos, bog-myrtle, heath, &c., in July and August, but will eat oak and 

 willow in confinement. 



*8. A. Auricoma (W. V.). — Fore-wings varied with paler and darker grey, with a black 

 basal streak, and another above the hinder angle ; the transverse lines are double, the elbowed 

 line strongly dentated, and filled up with paler ; the orbicular stigma is moderately large, 

 the reniform stigma is indistinct, and the hind-wings are dusted with brownish. Expands 

 from i^ to 1 1 inches. Not uncommon in Northern and Central Europe and Northern and 

 Western Asia from May to July, but rare in England. The larva is black, with rust- 

 coloured warts, covered with yellow hair. It feeds on sloe, bilberry, &c., in June, and 

 again from August to October. The moth and larva are figured at PI. 32, Fig. g, a, b. 

 {A. Acuta, Freyer, from Turkey, resembles a small Rjimicis. The thorax and fore-wings are 

 yellowish-grey, clouded with black, and with well-defined spots and markings, of which the 

 most distinct is a black shaded band running through the two stigmata from the costa to the 

 inner margin. Hind-wings and abdomen mouse-coloured. Fringes white, chequered with black 

 on the fore -wings. Under side mouse-coloured ; hind-wings paler, with a distinct band, but no 

 lunule.) 



*g. A. EnphorbicB (W. V.). — Fore-wings pale grey, dusted with darker, with a row of 

 indistinct pale spots before the hind margin ; the transverse lines are double, the elbowed 

 line much dentated, a little paler on the inside ; the orbicular stigma small, and the reniform 

 stigma inconspicuous ; hind-wings white in the male, and brownish-grey in the female. The 

 variety Enplirasice (Borkh.) is more finely scaled, and varied with yellowish on the thorax ; and 

 the variety Mofitivaga, Guen. (= Myricce, Guen.), from Scotland and the Alps, is darker, with 

 more unicolorous bluish-grey fore-wings. Expands from rj to i| inches. Widely distributed 

 in Europe and Northern and Western Asia from May to July, but only abundant in 

 certain localities, and Montivaga is the only British variety. The larva is blackish, with 

 hairy warts, and a yellowish-red stripe on the sides. There is a large red spot on the 3rd 

 segment, and the succeeding segments are spotted with black and white. It feeds on spurge, 

 bog-myrtle, and other low plants in June, and again in August and September. 



