222 ' . EUKOPEAX BUTTERFLIES AXD MoTIIS. 



black, and the claviform stigma is brown and concave; hind-wings reddish-brown, with two 

 paler transN'crse lines, and all the fringes interrupted with brown. Expands about i^ inches. 

 Rare in South France and Spain in June. The larva lives in the capsules of Sllcne viscosa, 

 and the pupa sometimes passes three or four years before the perfect insect emerges. {D. Sejuncta, 

 Herr.-SchJiff., from Turkey, is grey, the fore-wings with the transverse lines brown and waved, 

 and the stigmata varied with white ; there is also a white costal spot near the tip, and a sharply- 

 dentated white subterminal line. Tliis insect is perhaps a variety of Silencs.) 



14. D. Saucta (Staud.) has darker fore-wings than Silcnes, and only the orbicular stigma is 

 distinctly surrounded with white. The white subterminal line forms two large zigzags ; the 

 other lines are indistinct. Hind-wings paler at the base, and darker towards the margins. 

 Found in Spain in May. 



15. D. Christophi (Moschl.).— Fore-wings yellowish-brown, varied with black; the reniform 

 stigma brown, surrounded with white, the orbicular stigma white, with a dark centre, the 

 claviform stigma brown, surrounded with black ; the basal area and subterminal line, as well as 

 a spot beyond the elbowed line on the inner margin, and another at the tip, all white ; hind-wings 

 yellowish-grey, with a darker central spot, a narrow curved brown stripe, and a broad blackish 

 submarginal band. Bred from a dull yellowish-green larva, with whitish longitudinal stripes, 

 found near Sarepta in July. 



•16. D. Irregularis (Hufn.), Echii (Borkh.). — Fore-wings varied with pale yellow and yellowish- 

 brown, with double dentated transverse lines, and a pale subterminal line, slightly dentated, and 

 bordered with brownish in front, the marginal line unspotted, and the fringes broadly inter- 

 sected with whitish; hin,d-wings brownish-grey; the hind margins and a curved line darker. 

 E.xpands about 1^ inches. Widely distributed in Central Europe in May and June, but very 

 rare in Britain. Larva yellowish-grey, with oblique dark stripes on the back. It feeds on 

 Gypsophila Pauiculata in July. 



17. D. Lntcago (VV. V.). — Fore-wings ochre-yellow, varied with rusty-brown, especially in the 

 central area, which is bounded by the brown dentated transverse lines, edged with paler ; the 

 subterminal line is slightly indented and curved, and bordered with brownish behind ; and the 

 two stigmata are indistinct ; hind-wings brownish-grey, with an indistinct curved stripe. Expands 

 from 1 1 to I i inches. A rare species in the southern half of Central Europe and in the Altai in 

 May, June, and August. The larva is dull brownish-grey, darker above, with a dark dorsal line. 

 It lives in the stalks and roots of Silcnc nutans and inflata in July and August. {D. Literata, 

 Fisch., from Sarepta, has denticulated brown wings with irregular white bands and stripes.) 



18. D. Andalusica (Staud.), from Andalusia, resembles Saiicta. It is dark grey, varied 

 with ochre ; the two stigmata and an adjoining spot pale grey ; beneath these is a very dark 

 dash. Hind margin pale ; subterminal line simply curved ; the three other dark transverse 

 lines are strongly dentated. All the wings with a well-marked dark transverse band beneath, 

 but with no central spots. 



19. D. Proxinia (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings rather long, bluish-grey, varied with brownish; the 

 marginal area lighter. There is a black basal streak, bordered with light in front, and dark 

 double slightly-dentated transverse lines. The two stigmata are surrounded with paler, the 

 orbicular stigma is long and oblique, and the subterminal line forms a short W ; hind-wings 

 brownish-grey. The variety Extensa (Eversm.) has a broad dark band in the middle of the fore- 

 wings. Expands about i \ inches. It is found in the mountains of Central and Eastern Europe in 

 July and August. (Z?. Meissonieri, Guen., from Marseilles, differs from Proxima chiefly by its 

 white hind-wings. D. Skraelingia, Ilcrr.-Schaff., from Lapland, resembles Craniophora Ligustri, 



