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The female has narrower and rounder wings. The antennae are not dentated, and the abdomen 

 is slender and tufted at the sides. The only species, * L. Arciiosa (Haw.), has pale ochre- 

 yellow fore-wings, varied with rusty-red, with two slender indistinct blackish transverse lines, 

 the elbowed line strongly curved, beyond which is a row of small black dots ; hind-wings 

 dusted with grey. Expands from three-quarters to one and a quarter inches. Common in 

 Central Europe in June and July. The larva is dirty yellowish-white, with small dark warts. 

 It lives from autumn to May in and between the stems of Aira ccespitosa. 



GENUS XXI.— GRAMMESIA (STEPH.). 



Body stout, fore-wings short and broad, with the hind margin a little oblique and 

 slightly curved ; fringes rounded, stigmata absent. Hind-wings with the tips rounded ; the 

 thick abdomen extends beyond the anal angle. The only species, * G. Trigrammica (Hufn.), 

 Trilinea (W. V.), has greyish-ochreous fore-wings, finely dusted with rusty-brown, and three 

 nearly straight rusty-brown transverse lines (the middle line wanting in variety Biiinea, Tr.), 

 and the hind-wings dusted with brown. Expands about i^ inches. Common in Central and 

 Southern Europe from May to July. The larva is thick, violet-brown, with a light stripe on 

 the sides and black oblique stripes on the back. It lives on low plants from autumn to May. 



GENUS XXII. — DlCYCLA (GU£N.). 



Body rather stout, fore-wings narrow, a little broader behind, with the hind margin only 

 slightly oblique, and rounded fringes ; the complete Noctua-^-sX\.&x\\ is present. The abdomen 

 extends a little beyond the anal angle of the hind-wings. The only species, * D. Oo (Linn.), 

 has pale yellow fore-wings, rusty-brown and dusted with grey towards the base and in the 

 suffused band ; the two double transverse lines, the central shade, on which the reniform 

 stigma is placed, and the neighbourhood of the three stigmata all rusty-brown ; hind-wings 

 whitish. Expands from i^ to i^ inches. Common in Central and Southern Europe from 

 June to August. The larva is slender, reddish-brown, with white longitudinal lines. It lives 

 on oak, in May and June, between leaves which it has spun together. 



GENUS XXIII. — CLEOCERIS (BOISD.). 



Fore-wings broader behind^ gradually rounded above the hinder angle ; the tips truncated, 

 the fringes rounded, and the complete Noctiia-'^'aXX.&xn marked ; hind-wings narrow, the abdomen 

 rather long and tufted at the sides. The only species, * C. Viniinalis (Fabr.), has violet-grey 

 fore -wings, varied with brown, with a black basal streak, and the three stigmata narrowly 

 surrounded with black ; the orbicular and reniform stigmata are whitish, with dark centres, 

 and the claviform stigma extends to the elbowed line ; the lines are indistinctly double, and 

 the elbowed line is strongly curved round the reniform stigma ; hind-wings pale grey. Expands 

 from i-^ to li inches. Common in Europe and the Altai in July. The larva is slender, 

 green, with five white longitudinal lines, and the mouth and back of the head black. It 

 feeds on willow in May and June. 



GENUS XXIV. — ANCHOCELIS (GU£N.). 



Rather slender, the fore-wings rather narrow, and the tips somewhat rounded and not promi- 

 nent ; hind-wings comparatively small. The forehead with a small projecting hairy tubercle, 

 truncated at the end ; the palpi long and drooping, with the last joint short and truncated. 

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