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female is unusually prominent. Size of Sigiiifcra. It flies by day in July, in warm stony 

 localities in the French Alps. 



* 58. A. Prcucffx (Linn.). — Fore-wings rather narrow, dull greenish, with double blackish 

 dentated transverse lines, and a lighter submarginal line, slender and indented, and bordered in 

 front with rusty-red ; the three stigmata are large, greenish-white, with the centres often darker. 

 and narrowly surrounded with black ; hind-wings brownish-grey. Expands from i J to i f inches. 

 It is found throughout Central Europe and Northern Asia in sandy places, on the coast and 

 elsewhere, but is local and not always common ; it appears in June and July. The larva is 

 pale grey, with white stripes on the back and sides, and yellowish subdorsal stripes. It feeds on 

 wormwood, viper's bugloss, &c., till May, and hides itself in the sand during the day. The moth 

 is figured at PI. 36, Fig. 6. 



C.^Agroiis (Hiibn.). — Tlie front tibim considerably shorter than the first Joint of the tarsi, with a 

 row of bristles on each side. 



59. A. Miisiva (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings reddish-violet-brown, with the costa broadly pale 

 yellow, and bordered below with deep black as far as the reniform stigma. The orbicular stigma 

 is whitish, and suffused with the costa, and the reniform stigma is grey, surrounded with whitish, 

 and all the lines are very indistinct. The hind-wings are white, and the collar is whitish in front, 

 and dark brown behind. Expands from i^to ih inches. Inhabits South Europe and Northern 

 and Western Asia in July. The larva is yellowish-green, with a dark line on the back and a 

 dark green stripe on the sides. It feeds on low plants till April. 



* 60. A. Flammatra (W. V.). — Fore-wings dark violet-grey, broadly ashy-grey on the costa, 

 with a deep black basal streak thickened behind, and a long black triangle before the light 

 orbicular stigma, which is produced in front ; the elbowed line is single and much dentated, 

 and the subterminal line is indented, with short black arrow-headed spots in front ; hind-wings 

 brownish-grey; the collar black behind. Expands about \\ inches. It occurs in the south of 

 Europe and Asia in June and July, and has once been taken in the Isle of Wight. The larva 

 is green, with paler stripes on the sides, and feeds on wild strawberry, dandelion, &c., till April. 



61. A. Candeliseqiia (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings pale ashy-grey, with suffused brownish transverse 

 lines, and black streaks running from the base, and from the orbicular stigma to the sub- 

 terminal line, which latter is only indicated by the dark shading behind it, with two long 

 teeth in the middle, and is often marked with blackish arrow-headed spots also ; hind-wings 

 white. Expands from \\ to if inches. Inhabits South Europe and Northern and Western 

 Asia in June and July. The larva is brownish-grey, with dark stripes on the back and sides, 

 and whitish beneath. It feeds on Jurinea mollis till June. 



62. A. Fennica (Tausch.). — Dark grey; fore-wings brown behind, with the transverse lines 

 black, double, and waved, the stigmata edged with black, the claviform stigma rather long, the 

 orbicular stigma white and nearly round, and the reniform stigma brown ; the subterminal 

 line grey, and angulated on the outside; hind-wings grey. Expands if inches. It inhabits 

 the north of Europe, Asia, and America in July and August, and is said to have been 

 occasionally taken in England. 



63. A. Ftigax (Tr.). — Fore-wings coarsely scaled, grey varied with j^ellowish, with rather 

 indistinct dark transverse lines, the inner line double, and the elbowed line single and indented, 

 forming two curves in cell i b, and bordered with yellowish externally. The subterminal line is 

 zigzag, whitish, with suffused brownish-grey spots in front, and the stigmata indistinct. Hind- 

 wings dusted with grey, with a central lunule and curved stripe on the under side. Expands from 

 if to 2 inches. It inhabits Austria and Russia in June and July. The larva is shining clay- 



