332 EUROPEAX RjlTTF.RFLIF.S AXO MoTHS. 



with black dashes on the nervures ; the subterminal Hue is shaded with brownish in front, 

 and there is often a central shade passing over the central spot ; the hind-wings have a dark 

 shade before the middle, and two transverse shaded lines beyond ; the fringes are pale grey, 

 unspotted; and the body is black, with white hairs. Expands about \\ inches. The female 

 is black, with diverging white hairs ; the wings are twice as long as the thorax, and pale grey. 

 Inhabits the Valais and the Grisons in Mai ch and April. The larva is dirty yellow with 

 black dots and dashes, and a yellow stripe on the sides. It feeds on yarrow and other low 

 plants in June and July. {B. Gmcaria, Staud., found in Carniola, the Balkans, and Greece in 

 February and March, is smaller and darker. It is grey generally, with darker bands, but is 

 sometimes almost unicolorous.) 



* 7. B. Zouaria (W. V.). — Fore-wings of the male greyish-brown, whitish in front in the basal 

 half, with two whitish curved transverse lines bej'ond the middle, and brownish unspotted fringes ; 

 hind-wings whitish, with two greyish-brown shaded stripes, and the segments of the abdomen 

 narrowly bordered with whitish. Expands from i to r^ inches. The female is black, with white 

 hairs, and the segments of the abdomen are bordered with white ; the rudiments of wings are 

 very short. Inhabits South-Central and Western Europe, and Armenia, in April ; it is a coast 

 insect in Britain, occurring on the sand-hills. The larva is green, dotted with blackish, and with 

 a broad yellow stripe on the sides. It feeds on yarrow in May and June. The male moth is 

 figured at PI. 46, Fig. 1 1. {B. (?) Fidiiciaria, Anker, from Hungary, is dark grey ; the thorax 

 whitish, and the abdomen blackish ; the wings are semi-transparent, with a white border, and 

 the fore-wings have a large white central spot, and a transverse white line beyond it.) 



GENU.S LIII. — APOCHIMA (HERK.-SCHAFF.). 



Body very stout and woolly ; all the wings entire, straight, long, and pointed at the tips. 

 The hind tibia; have only one pair of spurs. The antenna; of the male are very large, fan-like, 

 and pectinated ; in the female they are pubescent. The abdomen is very short and conical in 

 the male, and does not extend beyond the hind-wings ; in the female it extends for half its length 

 bej'ond them. The only species, A. Flalnilaria (Heeger), is grey, with marginal black dots ; the 

 fore-wings with four oblique and slightly angulated blackish lines, and the hind-wings with two. 

 It inhabits Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey, and Algeria in spring. 



GENUS UV. — AMPHIDASIS (TR.). 



Resembles Bistoii, but the female has perfectly developed wings, and the hind tibic^ have 

 two pairs of spurs. The single European species, *A. Betidaria, Linn, (the Pepper and Salt 

 Moth), has chalky-white wings speckled with black, the fore-wings with four black costal 

 spots, and two (sometimes indistinct) black and strongly-interrupted transverse lines, the second 

 continued on the hind-wingi. An almost black variety {Donb/edayaria, Mill.) is not very 

 uncommon in England. Expands from ij to 2} inches. Common in Northern and Central 

 Europe, and in Siberia, in May and June. The larva is grey or brown, with blackish warts ; 

 it feeds on various trees from July to October. The transformations are figured at PL 43, 

 Fig. 7, a — c. 



GENUS LV. — DA.SYDIA (GUftN.). 



Blackish moths, with large dark wings with a light transverse line, all coloured alike ; the 

 fore-wings are triangular in the male, and the hind margin is two-thirds of the length of the 



