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submarginal band brownish-red on the costa ; hind-wings pale grey, with rosy fringes. Expands 

 from I4 to \\ inches. Common throughout Central Europe and the Altai in July and August. 

 The larva is purplish-brown, with three yellowish lines on the back, and indistinctly darker angular 

 spots, black oblique dashes bordered below with yellowish, and a reddish-grey stripe on the sides. 

 It feeds on primroses, &c., till June. The moth is figured at PI. 36, Fig. i. 



10. A. Conflua (Tr.). — Resembles F estiva ; the fore-wings are narrower at the base and 

 broader behind, and redder and more unicolorous ; the transverse and submarginal lines are 

 indistinct, and the latter is shaded with dusky behind. Expands rather under 1 1 inches. It inhabits 

 Northern Europe and some of the German and Swiss mountains in July and August. The larva is 

 greyish-brown, with an obscurely paler line on the back, and a black waved line on the sides. It 

 feeds on Polygonum historta till July. 



*li. A. Dak/ii (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings broad, varied with pale rusty-brown and violet-grey, with 

 two rather indistinct double dentated brown transverse lines, beyond which is an interrupted double 

 row of pale dots. The central shade is broad and dark, the two stigmata are large, and often sur- 

 rounded with white, and the subterminal line is slightly waved, and bordered behind with darker as 

 far as the hind margin. The hind-wings are yellowish-grey, with yellowish fringes, and the antenns 

 of the male arc slightly dentated. Expands from I5 to l^ inches. Inhabits Central Europe and 

 the Altai in July and August. The larva is cinnamon-brown, varied with blue on the sides, without 

 the yellow transverse dash behind the I2th segment, which is present in that of Brunnea, which it 

 otherwise much resembles. It feeds on grass, plantain, &c., till May or June. 



*I2. A. Briinnca (W. V.). — Fore-wings -rather narrow, varying from rusty-yellow 'to brownish- 

 red, much varied with violet-grey ; darker between the two large stigmata, which are surrounded 

 with black and paler ; with two indistinct slightly dentated double transverse lines, and the sub- 

 terminal line irregularly zigzag. The reniform stigma is filled up with yellowish, and the hind-wings 

 are brownish-grey with rosy fringes. Expands from \\ to if inches. It is common in Central and 

 Northern Europe, and in the Altai in June and July. The larva is coffee-brown, with three pale 

 lines on the back, between which are oblique dull yellow dashes bordered with dusky; there is a 

 dull yellow transverse dash behind the 12th segment, and a whitish-grey stripe on the sides. It 

 lives on bilberry and other low plants till May. 



*I3. A. Baja (W. V.). — Fore-wings brownish-violet-red, or violet-grey, with indistinct markings ; 

 the two stigmata are large, and surrounded with paler ; the reniform stigma is filled up below with 

 blackish, and the subterminal line is marked in front below the costa with two small deep black 

 spots; hind-wings brownish-grey. Expands about li inches. Common in Northern and Central 

 Europe, and in the Altai in July and August. The larva is flesh-colour or ochre-yellow, mottled 

 with brownish, with three whitish lines on the back, and brown angular spots, connected together 

 like a chain, which become blacker and spade-shaped behind ; and a grey stripe on the sides. It 

 feeds on low plants till May. 



*I4. A. Rlioinboidea (Esp.). — Fore-wings violet-brown, with a square dark brown spot between 

 the stigmata, and a triangular one before the orbicular stigmata. The stigmata are large, and 

 surrounded with paler ; the transverse lines are indistinct, and the subterminal line is zigzag, shaded 

 with darker in front ; and the hind-wings are brownish-grey. Expands from i^ to if inches. 

 Inhabits Central Europe in June and July. The larva is reddish-brown, and resembles that of 

 Baja, but the lateral stripe is bordered above with a snow-white line. It feeds on low plants till 

 May. 



*IS. A. Triaiigii/uin (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings brownish-yellow, varied with violet-reddish and 

 greyish-white, the orbicular stigma bordered by two large black spots, united below it ; the central 



