2 14 EuKOPEAX Butterflies and Moihs. 



is said to have once occurred in Pembrokeshire. The larva is brownish-grey, with paler 

 oblique stripes, two light lines on each side, and an orange-red collar. The moth and larvae 

 are figured at PI. 38, Fig. i, a, b. 



2. V. Jaspidca (Vill.). — Very like Okagina, but the rcniform stigma has a dark centre, 

 and the hind-wings are somewhat yellowish. The antennae are simple in the female, and 

 furnished with short, thick, blunt processes in the male. Size of Okagina. A rare species, 

 inhabiting France and Thuringia. The larva resembles that of Okagina, but has a black 

 horse-shoe mark, bordered with white behind, on the 12th segment. 



3. V. Spikgraniuia (Ramb.). — Fore-wings broad, varied with brown, green, and dull 

 yellowish, with indistinct and very irregular interrupted black transverse lines, the elbowed 

 line strongly curved behind, where it is composed of darker double lunules ; the two stigmata 

 brown, bordered below with yellowish-white, and the claviform stigma indistinct ; hind-wings 

 whitish, broadly bordered with black. Inhabits South Russia. 



4. V. Orbicnlosa (Esp.). — Brownish-grey ; fore-wings with the lines double, the inner line 

 pale grey and much angulated, the elbowed line black, bordered with whitish ; the reniform 

 stigma and a spot at the tip are reddish, and there are some whitish markings on the costa ; 

 hind-wings white, with a central lunule, hind margin \-ery broadly black. Inhabits Hungary. 

 This species (with perhaps the last also) belongs to Staudinger's still uncharactcrised genus 

 Oxytripia. 



GENU.S XV.—MISELIA (STEPH.). 

 Fore-wings with a long, oblique, and moderately-curved hind margin, with the hinder angle 

 distinct. There is a black streak at the base ; all the lines are rather indistinct ; the two upper 

 stigmata are very large and oval, the fringes are very long, almost festooned ; and the hind- 

 wings are moderately rounded, and considerably shorter than the abdomen. The larvae have 

 a smooth head and are mottled ; there are short points on the twelfth segment. They feed 

 on trees in May and June, concealing themselves in the crevices of the bark by day, and the 

 moths appear in autumn, and may be taken at sugar. 



* I. M. Oxyacant/icn (Linn). — Fore-wings varied with paler and darker brown, dusted with 

 green on the nervures and along the hind margin ; the transverse lines are not dentated, and 

 the elbowed line forms a white lunule above the inner margin ; hind-wings brownish-grey. 

 Expands from i| to if inches. Common throughout Central Europe; a variety with brown 

 fore-wings {Capiicina, Mill.) is sometimes taken in England. The larva is pale grey or greenish- 

 grey, with blackish streaks and dark spots on the back, on which stand small pale warts, and 

 there are four points on the 12th segment. It feeds on sloe, hawthorn, &c. The moth is 

 figured at PI. 37, Fig. 2. 



* 2. 3f. Bimaadosa (Linn.). — Fore-wings pale grey, varied with pale brown, the transverse 

 lines dentated ; hind-wings white, dusted with brownish, with two large dark-brown spots, 

 one in the middle and another near the anal angle. Expands from 2 to 2\ inches. Inhabits 

 the southern half of Central Europe, and is said to have been once taken at Bristol. Larva 

 brownish-grey, darker in front, with a pale stripe on the back and a somewhat waved stripe 

 on the sides, darker above and paler below. It feeds on elm. 



GENUS XVI.— CHARIPTERA (OUEN.). 



Fore-wings with a long, oblique, and moderately-curved hind margin, and a distinct anal 

 angle ; the three stigmata are large, and the claviform stigma coalesces with the orbicular 



