340 EuKOPJSAM Butterflies and Moths. 



about three-quarters of an inch. Inhabits Southern and South-Central Europe and Western 

 Asia in July. The larva is transversely wrinkled, with rows of fine brown or blackish raised 

 warts, and four white lozenge-shaped spots in the middle, bordered with dusky, adjoining 

 smaller white spots ; and the belly with a white lyre-shaped mark on each segment. 



11. ^. Mutillata (Stand.). — Size of Litigiosaria, wings light grey, with a very slight 

 yellowish tinge. The dark central dots are equally distinct above, but much fainter below, 

 and the black dots or dashes of the marginal line are much more strongly marked. The 

 first transverse line projects much more sharply than the others behind the discoidal cell, 

 and is strongly and irregularly zigzag on the hind-wings. There is also a tolerably distinct 

 transverse basal line before the central dot of the fore-wings ; and beyond the strongly zigzag 

 line are two more faint transverse lines. It occurs in Sicily in October. 



12. A. Determinata (Stand.). — Dirty yellow, thinly speckled with large black scales, and 

 with a very slight reddish shade. Central dots large and black. At two-thirds of the length 

 of the fore-wings is a very oblique black transverse line, strongly angulated outwards ; and 

 beyond the discoidal cell are two sharply-defined black transverse stripes close together ; 

 the innermost does not extend to the costa. There is a third dark transverse band consider- 

 ably beyond these, and another before the fringes. The marginal line is light, very strongly 

 dotted with black on the nervures. Size of the last species. It inhabits Sicily in September 

 and October. 



13. A. Macilentaria (Herr.-Schafif.). — Wings straw-colour, greyish-green, or ochre-yellow, 

 thinly dusted with black, with a broad waved subterminal line bordered with brownish, and 

 a brownish central shade ; the fore-wings with two dark transverse lines, the hind-wings with 

 one, and with a black dot before the middle ; the base of the fringes finely dotted with 

 black. Expands about i inch. Inhabits South-Central and South-Western Europe in June. 

 The larva is greenish-ochreous, with a paler line on the back bordered by dark streaks ; it 

 feeds on yarrow. 



14. A. Ricfaria (Hiibn.). — Wings reddish-ochreous, with dark brown central dots, a slender 

 dark marginal line, and a light subterminal line, indistinctly bordered with reddish ; two 

 transverse lines on the fore-wings, and one on the hind-wings, as well as the central shade, 

 are brick-red, and the fringes are not dotted. Expands i inch or over. Inhabits South 

 Europe, Silesia, and Western Asia in July and August. The larva is yellowish-grey, with a 

 sharply-defined double pale line on the back bordered with dark lines, and adjoining blackish 

 trapeze-shaped spots ; and a whitish spot on the loth segment. {A. Consaitgninaria, Led., 

 from South-Eastern Europe, is paler and more shining, with paler lines, black central dots, 

 the fringes dotted with black, and the submarginal line of the fore-wings more recurved 

 behind.) 



*IS. A. Ochrata (Scop.). — Closely allied to Riifaria, but the brown central dots are absent, 

 and the roots of the fringes are marked with fine dark dots. The transverse lines and central 

 shade are brown rather than red. Expands about three-quarters of an inch. Inhabits Central and 

 Southern Europe in July and August. The larva is rather smooth, greenish grey, with slender 

 double lines on the back, and the belly marked with two black dots at the end of each segment. 

 It feeds on chickweed till May. 



\6. A. Trilineata (Scop.), Aureolaria (W. V.). — Wings pale golden-yellow, with two black 

 parallel transverse lines on the under surface beyond the middle ; on the upper side the fore- 

 wings are marked with three and the hind-wings with two nearly straight dark grey tran.sverse 

 lines ; the fringes are dark grey, and paler at the ends. Expands about three-quarters of an inch. 



