296 HrKorEAx Bvttf.r flies axd Moths. 



separated from the band by the dark central huiulc ; body slender, thinl\- clothed with raised 

 hair ; head downy ; antennae of the male shortly pectinated or serrated ; palpi small, and 

 concealed by the hair; legs short and downy. Larvae are short and slender, with short hairs 

 and raised spots ; they have sixteen legs, but the three first pairs of prolegs are quite 

 rudimentary. They feed from May to July, and change to pupse among soft wood, or 

 moss. The moths fly in the sunshine in March and April, and rest with their wings slightly 

 sloping. They are insects of somewhat uncertain position, and are sometimes placed after 

 the Noctuo-phalatiidcB. The three European species are all very similar, and are included in 

 the single genus Brephos (Ochs.). They expand from i]- to I J inches. 



*i. /'. Partliaiias (Linn.). — Fore-wings brown, dusted with whitish in the central and 

 marginal areas, with an indistinct dark reniform stigma, and the fringes chequered with 

 whitish at the ends; hind-wings orange from the middle to the costa, and with a broad 

 orange submarginal band ; the antennae of the male are serrated. Common in Europe, 

 Siberia, and Labrador. The larva is green, with three dark lines on the back, finely bordered 

 with yellow, and a yellow stripe on the sides. It feeds on birch. The moth is figured at 

 n. 41- Fig- 8. 



*2. B. Notha (Esp.). — Very like Parllicnias, but the fore-wings are darker grey, dusted 

 with whitish at the base and beyond the middle, so that the basal half is obliquely bounded ; 

 the fringes are unspotted, and the antennae of the male are pectinated. Inhabits Central 

 Europe. The larva is green, with very fine and indistinct longitudinal lines, and a white 

 line on the sides, which is generally broadly bordered with black. It feeds on aspen. 



3. N. Puclla (Esp.). — Fore-wings longer and narrower, with the hind margin longer 

 and more oblique ; dark greyish-brown, finely dusted with pale grey, the fringes not spotted ; 

 hind-wings with a narrower and strongly curved ochre-yellow band, and the discoidal cell 

 of the same colour ; the antennae of the male are pectinated. Inhabits the south of Central 

 Europe. The larva is violet or rosy, with two white lines on the back, and a white stripe 

 on the sides ; it feeds on a.spen. 



