i6o European Butterflies and Moths. 



Expands from \\ to i\ inches. Common throughout tlie greater part of Europe and Western 

 Asia from May to September. The larva is shining yellowish or reddish, with a whitish line 

 on the back bordered with dusky, and a yellowish-white stripe on the sides bordered with 

 black. It lives in June, and from autumn to April, on grass and low plants. The moth and 

 larva are figured at PI. 34, Fig. 3, a, b. 



*3. L. Impura (Hiibn.). — Allied to Fallens, the fore-wings browner, with the borders of 

 the nervures and the intermediate lines darker and better marked ; hind margin dotted with 

 black, and hind-wings brownish-grey. Expands from \\ to \\ inches. Common in Central 

 Europe and Northern Asia from June to September. The larva is yellowish-grey, with a broad 

 dirty yellow stripe on the back divided with white, and a yellow stripe on the sides bordered 

 with brown. It feeds on grass in July, and from autumn to May. 



*4. L. Straminca (Tr.).— Fore-wings rather broad, straw-coloured, with white veins bordered 

 with dusky, and dark intermediate lines, as well as with a dark basal streak, and three black 

 dots arranged as in L. Fallens ; hind-wings white, dusted with grey, with a row of black 

 dots across the middle. Expands from \\ to i^ inches. Occurs in the northern half of 

 Central Europe in June and July, but not very common. The larva is slender ; straw- 

 colour, with five whitish longitudinal lines, the middle one most conspicuous, and narrowly 

 edged with black. It feeds on reed till May. 



*S. L. Obsoleta (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings reddish ochre-yellow, with white veins bordered with 

 black, and intermediate black lines, as well as with a row of black dots beyond the middle; 

 hind-wings white, dusted with brown on the nervures and towards the hind margin. Expands 

 about li inches. Common in Central Europe in May and June among reeds. The larva is 

 whitish-grey, with dark lines, and feeds on reed in autumn. It passes the winter full-grown, 

 enclosed in a cocoon. The moth is figured at PI. 34, Fig. 4. 



6. L. Hispanica (Bell.). — Very similar to Fallens; straw-colour, with the white nervures 

 very distinct. The two outer dots are absent, and the inner margin is a little speckled with 

 black. Hind-wings whitish, with the hind margins darker, and marked with a row of black 

 dots between the nervures. Expands \\ inches. The larva is yellowish, with two broad white 

 stripes on the sides, and fine brown lines between them and on the back. It lives on grass, 

 especially on species of Fiperatenun growing in dry stony places. The moth is double-brooded, 

 appearing first towards the end of May, and again from the end of August to December. It 

 is met with in the neighbourhood of Barcelona, and is still rare in collections. 



7. L. Sicula (Tr.). — Fore-wings straw-colour, dusted with black, with a blackish central 

 stripe, marked with a white dot in the middle of the wing ; hind-wings greyish, with the 

 veins darker. Size of Imptira. It occurs in Sicily ; and the French variety Fuseilinea (Grasl.) 

 is a little smaller, with a more distinct brown stripe in the middle of the fore-wings. The 

 larva lives on the sea-coast in La Vendue in August, and the moth appears in the following 

 June. (Z. Albivcna, Grasl., found on the coasts of France and Belgium in August, is very 

 similar, but the fore -wings are pale yellowish-grey, shaded with dark brown in the middle, 

 with a central white dot, followed by a smaller black one ; the veins are whitish-grey. There 

 are traces of two transverse rows of black dots, and the hind-wings are greyish-white and 

 slightly iridescent.) 



8. L. Scirpi (Dup.). — Fore-wings rather long, with the hind margin sinuated ; straw-colour, 

 suffused with yellowish or reddish, and finely dusted with blackish, with a small white spot at 

 the end of the discoidal cell, a single or double row of blackish dots beyond the middle, and 

 white hind-wings. In variety Cyperi (Boisd.), from Calabria, the fore-wings are reddish, with the 



