230 European Butterflies and Moths. 



August, but is not common. The larva is reddish-brown, marbled with darker; and 

 yellowish-grey below. There are three pale lines on tlie back and another on the sides, the 

 latter bordered above with dusky. It feeds on honeysuckle in shady woods till June. 

 (//. Arnica, Tr., from Russia and Siberia, has the fore-wings varied with red and brown, with 

 the transverse lines white and rather broad, the subterminal line suffused, rising from a 

 white spot at the tip, forming a distinct W in the middle, and marked \\'ith black arrow- 

 heads. The stigmata are brown, bordered with white ; the orbicular stigma is oval and 

 oblique, and the reniform stigma is large, with a white spot above it, bordered within with 

 black ; the suffused submarginal band is brownish-violet, very pale inside ; and the hind-wings 

 are greyish-white in the male, and nearly copper-coloured in the female.) 



* 3. //. Adiista (Esp.). — Fore-wings dark reddish-brown, lighter in the suffused submarginal 

 band, with a narrow black basal streak, and a broader one below the claviform stigma, and 

 with black double transverse lines, slightly dentated ; the subterminal line yellowish-white, with 

 a distinct W, and dark arrow-heads ; the reniform stigma yellowish-white behind, and the hind- 

 wings whitish, with the hind margin grey. Expands from \\ to if inches. Found throughout 

 Europe and the Altai from May to July. (The variety Baltica, Hering, from North Germaay 

 and Livonia, has the fore-wings varied with violet-red and iron-grey, and the variety Pavida, 

 Boisd., from South Russia, is much darker, and nearly unicolorous.) The larva is pale rusty- 

 brown, marbled with darker, and green below. It feeds on heath, golden rod, &c., in autumn, 

 and hybernates in its cocoon, when full-grown. (H. Soinincri, Lef, from Iceland, Greenland, 

 and Labrador, has the fore-wings marbled w ith brown and grey, with black dentated transverse 

 lines, bordered with white, and grey stigmata ; hind-wings orange-grey.) 



4. H. Solicri (Boisd.). — Fore-wings uniform brown, with the hind margin darker; the 

 subterminal line indistinct, not forming a \V, and intersecting a row of long black or brown 

 dashes, placed between the nervules ; the transverse lines are angulated, bordered with brown, 

 and close together towards the hind margin, sometimes touching each other so as to form an X ; 

 the stigmata are more or less distinct, the reniform stigma bordered with white dots outside, and 

 the orbicular stigma ringed with black. Hind-wings dull white, with an interrupted brown border ; 

 in the female they are wholly washed with brown. Size of Aditsta. Common in South Europe 

 in September. The larva hybernates, and is full-grown in January. It lives on low plants, and 

 is very injurious in kitchen gardens ; it buries itself deeply in the earth when about to become 

 a pupa, and constructs a firm cocoon formed of silk and grains of sand. 



*5. H. Atriplicis (Linn.). — Fore-wings varied with paler and darker moss-green, violet on 

 the nervures and hind margin, with the transverse lines black, dentated, and broadly bordered 

 with violet ; the three stigmata are large, with a large dentated white spot placed obliquely below 

 the orbicular stigma ; the subterminal line is whitish, and strongly curved. Expands from if to 

 2 inches. Common throughout the greater part of Europe and Asia in June and July. The 

 larva is reddish-brown, mottled with darker, with a dark line on the back, a faint grey double 

 stripe on the sides, and two yellow spots on the last segment. It feeds on Polygoiiinn persicaria, 

 Atriplcx, &.C., from July to October. 



6. H. Getiimca (Tr.). — Fore-wings olive-brown, varied with violet, with double black dentated 

 transverse lines, and a narrow black zigzag central shade ; the three stigmata are large and white, 

 with the centres slightly dusky ; the subterminal line is narrow, white, zigzag, and marked with 

 small black arrow-heads in front ; hind-wings grey, with two narrow stripes, and the hind margin 

 brownish. Expands about ij inches. It is found in Northern and Alpine Europe in September. 

 {H. Sjlvatica, Chav., from Corsica, is greyish-brown fore-wings with two black lines ; stigmata 



