BOMOI.OCHA— HyFEXA. 289 



yellow and not dcntatcd ; the subterminal line strongly curved outwards, and runninfj to the 

 tip ; hind-winfjs pale grey, with a light curved stripe. Expands about i [ inches. Inhabits 

 Central Europe in May and June ; rare in England. The larva has fourteen legs ; it is green 

 and slender, with yellowish incisions, and feeds on Salix caprca in June and August. 



GENUS X. — BOMOLOCHA (lIL'BN.). 



Fore-wings with pointed tips, a rather short and slightly-curved hind margin, and no 

 distinct transverse lines ; hind-wings broad and rounded, without markings, and the forehead 

 with a loose horizontal crest; the palpi as long as the thorax, the eyes hairy behind, and the 

 antennae not dentatcd. The larva has fourteen legs, and raised dots, and the moth rests with 

 sloping wings. The only species, *B. Fontis,T\mvk>. [Crassalis, Fabr. ; Beautiful Snout), has brown 

 fore-wings, varied with pale yellow and bluish-grey on the inner margin, and in the marginal 

 area ; the central area is sharply bounded behind, and projecting in the middle ; the marginal 

 area is marked with a row of indistinctly darker round dots, bordered behind w ith whitish ; the 

 tip is intersected and more or less shaded with brown ; and the hind-wings are grey. The 

 variety Torriailaris (Hiibn.) has nearly black wings, with white dashes towards the hind margins. 

 Expands from ij to \h inches. Common in Northern and Central Europe from May to July. 

 The larva is green, with five dark lines on the back. It lives on heath and bilberry from July 

 to September. 



GENUS XI.— HYPEN.A. (TR.). 



Fore-wings with the hind margin curved and more or less convex ; brown or grey, with 

 transverse lines; hind-wings very broad, flatly contracted below the tips as far as the middle, 

 unicolorous brownish-grey ; the forehead with a tuft of hair, the palpi as long as the head and 

 thorax together, and the antennze simple. The larvae have fourteen legs, and raised spots, 

 bearing a few hairs. The moths slope their wings when at rest, and all the species which 

 follow P roboscidalis have raised, and often black, scales on the stigmata. 



1. H. Lividalis (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings olive-brown, with a green lustre, and violet-grey in the 

 marginal area, the two colours separated by an oblique white line, which runs from the middle 

 of the inner margin to the costa near the tip. Inhabits South Europe, North Africa, and Western 

 Asia. {H. Ravalis, Herr.-Schaff., from Sarepta and Amasia, is bluish-grey, with indistinctly 

 dentated transverse lines, the subterminal line reddish and suffused, and an oblique black streak 

 on the disc.) 



2. H. Antiqtialis (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings varied with brownish-grey and pale grey, with a dark 

 transverse line bordered with white on both sides, running from the middle of the inner margin, 

 and acutely angulated below the costa. Expands about i inch. Inhabits South-Eastern 

 Europe and Asia Minor in June, and the larva feeds on sage in May. 



*3. H. Proboscidalis (Linn.), {Snout). — Fore-wings broad, pale brownish-yellow, transversely 

 speckled with darker, with two rusty-brown transverse lines, and the subterminal line replaced 

 by a row of black dots, marked with white. Expands about U inches. Abundant throughout 

 Europe and Northern Asia in June, July, and September, among nettles, on which its green 

 larva, with a dark stripe on the back, and a yellowish one on the sides, feeds in May, July, and 

 August. 



*4. H. Rostralis (Linn.). — Fore-wings narrow, varied with brown and grey, with a black 

 transverse line, bordered with paler, straight above and zigzag below, beyond the middle ; a 

 4' 



