236 European Butterflies and Moths. 



lower part of the elbowed line is distinctly white. It is confined to Western Europe in June 

 and July.) 



* 32. H. Fiirunai/a (W. V.). — Fore-wings brown as far as the middle, and paler behind, the 

 two colours separated by a fine black vertical and nearly straight line, consisting of the front 

 border of the white reniform stigma, and the lower half of the elbowed line, while the upper half 

 of the latter makes a large curve round the reniform stigma ; the subterminal line as in Strigilis, 

 and the hind-wings light grey. The fore-wings vary very much in colour ; the hinder half is 

 sometimes of a paler or darker brownish-yellow, or the whole fore-wing is of a tolerably 

 unicolorous light brown, the marginal half and the reniform stigma hardly paler. Expands from 

 three-quarters of an inch to an inch. Common throughout Europe and Northern and Western 

 Asia in June and July. The larva is pale yellow, with the back reddish, and feeds in the stems 

 of grasses till May. {H. Bipartita, Herr.-Schiiff., from Sicily, has brown fore-wings, with waved 

 fasciffi, and the stigmata fawn-colour; a waved white transverse line runs outside the elbowed line ; 

 hind-wings grey, with the base and fringes paler. H. (.') Microglossa, Ramb., from Andalusia, is 

 exceedingly variable ; the fore-wings may be whitish, ochreous, or even reddish ; the stigmata, 

 central shade, and suffused submarginal band are brown, the transverse lines pale, sometimes white, 

 edged with black on the sides opposite to each other ; the inner line nearly straight, and the upper 

 part of the elbowed line forms a large curve round the reniform stigma ; hind-wings whitish ; 

 brownish or ochreous towards the hind margin. Expands nearly i inch.) 



*33. H. Litcrosa (Haw.). — Fore-wings varied with violet-grey and purplish-red as far as the 

 middle, bounded by an interrupted black line as in Funincula ; beyond the middle, pale grey, as 

 is also the reniform stigma ; broadly purplish-red before the hind margin ; the edge of the 

 orbicular stigma, and a dash in the position of the claviform stigma finely and sharply black ; the 

 subterminal line is less strongly arched, and not bordered behind with grey ; hind-wings darker 

 grey, with grey fringes. The variety C«j'r/^/«« (Herr.-Schiiff.), from Norderney and Heligoland, has 

 unicolorous pale brownish-grey fore-wings, dusted with ashy along the nervures ; and only the two 

 pale-bordered stigmata and the lower halves of the two transverse lines very faintly marked. 

 E.xpands about i inch. Widely distributed in Central Europe and Northern and Western Asia 

 from June to August ; but not generally common, and scarcely known in France. The larva is 

 found in the stalks of grass in April. 



GENUS XXV. — HVPPA (DUP.). 



Fore-wings with an oblique and moderately curved hind margin, the hinder angle distinct, and 

 the fringes slightly waved, the M^r/z/^-pattern rather irregular, and the claviform stigma absent, 

 the antennae shortly and thickly pectinated, and ciliated, the thorax crested behind, and 

 the scapulae rather projecting, and there is a very strong crest, truncated above, on the 

 3rd segment of the abdomen, and smaller crests on the following segments ; hind-wings 

 rounded, scarcely contracted below the tip. The only species, *H. Rcctilinca (Esp.), has 

 brown fore-wings, clouded with blackish in the lower half of the central area, and varied with 

 ashy-grey in the basal and marginal areas ; there is a long and thick black basal streak ; the 

 transverse lines are whitish on the inside, the inner line with long teeth, and the elbowed line 

 arched, and not dentated, but expanded into a spot above the inner margin ; and the subterminal 

 line is narrowly white, and forms a white W, extending to the hind margin ; it is indistinct 

 above the middle, and marked with black streaks extending to the hind margin ; hind-wings 

 brownish-grey. Expands about li inches. It is found throughout Northern and Central 



