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European Buttekfues and Moths. 



very coarse scales. The moths are rare, and are met with in South France and Spain in May. 

 They expand about i^ inches. 



1. J\I. Canteneri (Dup.). — Fore-wings reddish-grey, with the blackish transverse lines waved 

 and dentated, the subterminal line indistinct, bordered with black in front, and a very fine 

 marginal line, strongly dentated. The orbicular stigma is round, with a dark spot in the 

 middle, and the reniform stigma is only indicated by a black dash on the inner side ; there 

 is a row of very distinct white spots beyond the elbowed line. Hind-wings rosy grey, with 

 the hind margins and a central stripe darker. 



2. M. Felicina (Donz.).- -Fore-wings rusty red or pale brick-red, tinged with violet, and 

 marked here and there with more or less prominent patches of large ochre-yellow scales, 

 the transverse lines and stigmata of the ground-colour, the reniform stigma small and annular, 

 the subterminal line replaced by some isolated ochreous dots, and the fringes broad and 

 reddish-ochreous ; hind-wings greyish-ochreous, with flesh-coloured fringes. 



GENUS VI. — ON'COCNEMIS (LED.). 



Middle-sized moths, moderately stout, with depressed hair; the thorax and abdomen not 

 crested, the latter with a very short ovipositor in the female. The palpi are short and 

 projecting, and the forehead has no prominence. The tongue is spiral, and the antenna; are 

 setose, and very shortly ciliated. The fore-wings are moderately widened externally, and are 

 rounded at the tip and hinder angle. The moths fly over flowers in the Ural and Altai. 

 0. Coiifiisa (Freyer) has clay-coloured fore-wings (reddish in variety Rnfescens, Stand.), varied 

 •with grey and blackish, with some blackish spots on the disc and costa, and blackish transverse 

 lines ; hind-wings yellowish-grey, with a broad blackish suffused marginal band, better defined 

 on the under side. O. Nigricula (Eversm.) is smoky blackish, with the stigmata and transverse 

 lines black and very indistinct ; hind-wings pale ashy grey, with darker hind margins. 



GENUS VIE— CLADOCER.\ (RAMB.). 



Stout middle-sized moths, clothed with woolly hair, but not crested ; there is a small 

 rounded projection on the forehead between the antenna, which is concealed by the hair. 

 The palpi are short and drooping, and the tongue is absent. The antenna are pectinated in 

 the male, and simple in the female. The wings are shaped as in Oncocnemis. 



1. C. Optabilis (Boisd.). — Fore-wings yellowish-white, with the costa whitish and the 

 central area brownish ; stigmata rusty-red. The claviform stigma is pale yellow, bordered 

 with black, and runs from the base, parallel to the inner margin, as fr.r as the middle of the 

 wing. The hind margin is marked with a row of dark-brown arrow-headed spots. Hind- 

 wings dirty white, with the nervures reddish ; all the fringes reddish. Expands about i\ inche.s. 

 A rare species, inhabiting South France and Spain in April. 



2. C. Bceiica (Boisd.). — Whitish ; thorax brown, banded and spotted with black ; fore-wings 

 varied with brown, the transverse lines, the borders of the stigmata, and the submarginal spots 

 black. Inhabits Andalusia. 



GENUS Vin. — NEURONIA (HUBN.). 

 Stout, middle-sized moths, the thorax crested before and behind, and the antennae 

 pectinated in the males, but nut to the tip. The fore-wings are truncated behind, with the 



