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*2. S. Bclgaria (Hubn.). — Wings pale grey, speckled with rusty-brown, with black central 

 and smaller marginal dots ; fore-wings with two blackish transverse stripes converging on 

 the inner margin, and often broken into spots, the first finely zigzag and the second curved ; 

 the latter more narrowly continued on the hind-wings. Expands from ij to i^ inches. Inhabits 

 Central Europe, especially the west, in June. The larva is ashy-grey, with two brown lines on 

 the back, and a dark green stripe on the sides. It feeds on heath from autumn to May. 

 (5. Ptintlataria, Hiibn., from Spain, is yellowish-ashy or dull brown, speckled with black, and 

 with a black central spot on each wmg ; fore-wings with two transverse black lines, the second 

 thickened behind, denticulated, and continued on the hind-wings.) 



3. 5. Conspcrsaria (W. V.). — Usually paler than Bclgaria, with rows of dark dots, the first 

 generally indistinct and the second parallel to the hind margin, but with no black marginal 

 dots. Expands about \\, inches. Inhabits South Europe and Western Asia in July. It varies 

 considerably in colour, like all the species of this genus. The larva is grey, with a white stripe 

 broken into spots on the back, and a brown stripe on the sides. It feeds on Salvia officinalis 

 in June. (.S. Rauiiaria, Freyer, found in Carniola in August, is much smaller than Conspcrsaria ; 

 the male expands about three-quarters of an inch, and the female a little more. The wings are 

 more rounded than in Conspcrsaria, and the hind-wings are shorter on the costa, and there is 

 a less prominent tooth on the middle of their inner margin in the male. The male is dull 

 yellowish -white, with no rows of spots, and the female is chalky-white, speckled with dark- 

 atoms, and with rows of dots, the second row on the fore-wings further from the hind margin 

 than in Conspcrsaria) 



4. 5. Lcntiscaria (Donz.). — Fore-wings reddish-brown (rarely whitej, more or less speckled 

 with brown, with a spot in the middle and two transverse curved rows of brown dots ; hind- 

 wings grey, also speckled with brown, with a central spot, and one row of brown dots. Expands 

 about i^ inches. Inhabits South France and Spain in May. The larva is grey, varied with 

 reddish, and with a reddish stripe on the back. It feeds on Helianthcmuni from April to 

 November. 



GENUS XXVII. — PHASIANE (DUP.). 



Slender ; the hind-wings extend a little beyond the inner margin of the fore-wings, and 

 the costa of the former is a little longer than the inner margin. The larvaa are cylindrical, with 

 deep incisions, and form their pupa; in the ground. 



*i. P. Pctraria (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings greyish-white, dusted with rusty-brown, with a dark 

 brown central spot, two straight and rather oblique whitish transverse lines, shaded with 

 brown in front, and a light subterminal line ; hind-wings paler, with the commencement of 

 the second line on the inner margin. Expands about \\ inches. Common in Central and 

 Southern Europe, and Northern and Western Asia in May and June. The larva is dark 

 green above, with a slender dark double line on the back, many indistinct sufi"used parallel 

 lines, and a pale yellowish stripe on the sides. It feeds on fern in summer. The moth is 

 figured at PI. 49, Fig. 10. 



2. P. Partctaria (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings pale yellow, more or less strongly suffused with 

 reddish-brown, with two yellow transverse lines, the first straight, and the second angulated 

 towards the base ; hind-wings paler and less irrorated, with an indistinct brown central dot 

 and curved line. Expands from i to i\ inches. Inhabits South France and Spain from 

 March to May and from August to September. The larva is grey, with a broad whitish 

 stripe on the sides ; it feeds on Tcucriuui in October. 



