HF.r.roriioDCs — Ulochl.^.va. 2 1 1 



hinder angle rounded, and are brown, with double dark transverse lines, a little darker inside, 

 the elbowed and light-coloured subterminal lines slightly dentated, the orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata bordered with paler, and filled up with dusky, the fringes rounded ; hind-wings short. 

 The larva; live on grass, and conceal themselves after the last moult. They hybernate, and 

 change to pupae in the ground in June, and the moths appear in August and September. 



*i. N. Popularis (Fabr.). — Fore-wings brown, with whitish nervures and dark brown arrow- 

 heads placed on the subterminal line, the reniform stigma large, and broadest below, the 

 claviform stigma large ; the hind-wings dirty white, with the hind margin brownish-grey. The 

 antenna of the male have longer pectinations than in Cespitis. Expands from i\ to \\ inches. 

 Common in Central Europe and Northern and Western Asia. The larva is dark brown, 

 reticulated with blackish, with a light grey stripe on the sides. 



*2. N. Cespitis {\N.W.). — Fore-wings dark-brown, the transverse lines filled up with rust-colour, 

 the borders of the stigmata and the subterminal line yellowish ; claviform stigma small. Hind- 

 wings white, clouded in the female, with the hind margin brownish. Expands about i| inches. 

 Found throughout Central Europe, but not very common. The larva is green (dark brcwn after 

 the last moult), with three narrow white stripes on the back, and a broad one on the sides. 



GENUS IX. — HELIOPHOBUS (BOISD.). 



Allied to Episema, but more slender, with the hair much more depressed and the forehead 

 with no projection. The wings of the female are fully developed. The commonest species, 

 *H. Hispidus (Geyer), has violet-brown fore-wings, with yellowish stigmata and yellowish-grey 

 transverse lines ; the elbowed line curves round the reniform stigma, so as to enclose a 

 triangular brown spot beyond it. Before the fringes runs a black festooned line, followed by 

 a reddish one, and then by a well-marked whitish line, on which rest some brown arrow- 

 headed spots. Hind-wings dirty white, with the hind margin washed with rust-colour; or 

 entirely rust-colour in the female. The antenna; are strongly pectinated in the male, and simple 

 in the female. Expands i\ inches. It inhabits Western Europe in September, and the larva, 

 which is grey, dotted with black, lives on low plants, and hides itself at the roots after the 

 third moult. The moth is sometimes captured flying over flowering heath. H. Fallax (Staud ), 

 found at Sarepta in September, much resembles Ulochlccna Hirta, but is more brightly 

 coloured ; the dark hind-wings have a white central spot above, and the antennae of the 

 female are serrated. In the smooth hair, the winged female, and the larva, it closely resembles 

 H. Hispidus. 



GENUS X. — ULOCIIL.^NA (LI£U.). 



Different from Helioplwbiis chiefly in the shaggy hair of the male and the rudimentary 

 wings of the female. The male of the only species, U. Hirta (Hiibn.), has brown or grey 

 fore-wings, with white nervures and transverse lines, the latter bordered with white inside. The 

 three stigmata are dull rosy, bordered with black ; and there is a row of small arrow-headed 

 marginal black spots placed between the nervures; hind-wings grey. E.xpands \h inches. It 

 inhabits South France, South-Eastern Europe, and Western Asia in October. The larva feeds 

 on grass at night, and hides itself during the day in a silken case underground or under a 

 stone, and when full-grown, at the end of April, it remains in it, without taking food, till it 

 becomes a pupa in August. 



