i68 EvROPEAX Butterflies axd Moths. 



Iiind margins in the female. Expands i^ inches. Inliabits South Europe in July, but rather 

 scarce. The larva is brownish-grey, finely shaded with blackish, with three fine pale lines 

 on the back, and dark oblique dashes, and a black line on the sides. 



1 6. C. Gluteosa (Tr.). — Fore-wings triangular, broad in the male, and narrower in the 

 female ; dark ashy-grey, with a reddish shine, and a dark central shade, interrupted below 

 the costa. The subterminal line is a little paler, and the transverse lines and reniform stigma 

 are indistinct ; the orbicular stigma is represented by a black spot. The hind-wings are very 

 broad, and whitish, dusted with grey. Expands from i to \\ inches. A scarce species, 

 found in the Southern Alps in May. {C. Lenta, Tr., from Hungary, has narrower fore-wings 

 in the male, the reniform stigma is distinctly surrounded with dusky, the central shade is 

 less interrupted, and the hind-wings are much narrower, and brownish-grey.) 



* 17. C. Palustris (HUbn.). — Male with the fore-wings broad and triangular, pale reddish- 

 grey, with two bro\\-n transverse lines, the elbowed line indented, the orbicular stigma 

 represented by a brown dot, and the reniform stigma by a darker brown spot ; the hind- 

 wings are broad, and light grey. The wings are much smaller in the female ; the fore -wings 

 narrow and parallel, dark grey, dusted with blackish, but with the same markings as in the male; 

 the hind-wings are short, and dark grey. Expands from i| to i| inches. Widely distributed 

 in Northern and Central Europe from May to July, but rare, flying in grassy places in woods 

 by day. The lai-va is clay-colour, with a white interrupted line on the back, below which are 

 dark angular spots. {C. Abolenc, Guen., from South Russia, has ochreous fore-wings, varied 

 with black ; the central lines are indistinct, and the extremities of the nervules are darker ; 

 hind-wings dirty white, with ashy marginal lines. It may be distinguished from Palustris by 

 its less hairy palpi.) 



18. C. Lepigone (Moschl.). — Fore-wings narrow, oblong, nearly parallel, shining greyish- 

 brown, with the lines scarcely indicated by paler atoms. The stigmata are indistinct, but 

 brown, and the reniform stigma contains a small yellow spot. Hind-wings white, the costa 

 tinged with dark greyish-brown. A rare species, hitherto only observed in the south of 

 France and Russia, and in Armenia. 



19. C. Hospes (Freyer). — Brown; fore-wings with the nervures indistinctly shaded with 

 black and white, a fulvous submarginal line, and the stigmata black ; hind-wings white, 

 brownish at the hind margins. Inhabits South France, Spain, and Sicily. 



GENUS XIX. — ACOSMETIA (STEPH.). 



The hind margin of the fore-wings is long and nearly straight in the male ; in the 

 female the wings are narrower and the hind margin shorter. The stigmata are absent. The 

 hind-wings are very broad, with the tips obtusely rounded, and the abdomen is slender, and 

 does not extend beyond the anal angle. The antenna of the male are not dentated, and the 

 tongue is horny. The only species, * A. Caliginosa (Htibn.), has brownish-grey fore-wings, with 

 a reddish lustre, and indistinct dark transverse lines, beyond which is a row of dark spots. 

 The hind-wings are thinly scaled with brownish. Expands from i to i| inches. It is found 

 throughout Central Europe, flying at dusk or during the day in damp meadows, especially 

 near woods, from May to July, but is local. 



GENUS XX. — LAMPETIA (BOIE). 



Fore-wings with the tips nearly rectangular and rather truncated, rounded above the 

 hinder angle, with rounded fringes and indistinct markings ; hind-wings with the tips rounded. 



