346 European Butterflies and Moths. 



the wings longer and more pointed ; tlic transverse lines are well-defined and continuous, and 

 the small terminal spots arc placed before the fringes instead of upon them. A. Atroinarginata, 

 Mab., from Corsica, has reddish-grey fore -wings, with a broad dull purplish-black border, 

 divided by the subterminal line, and interrupted at the tip. Fringes reddish. Tip blackish, 

 and preceded by two small black costal dots. Hind-wings with the band paler. All the 

 central dots very small ; under side paler. Expands three-quarters of an inch. It occurs 

 among bushes in May.) 



41. A. Attenuaria (Ramb.), from Corsica and Sardinia, is yellowish-grey, with long and 

 pointed wings, distinct black central dots, and broad black borders, intersected by a white 

 terminal line (which stops obliquely before reaching the tip, as in Eriopodaid), and on the fore- 

 wings by two straight white subterminal lines. There is a black curved inner line on the fore- 

 wings, and three parallel ones on the hind-wings — one within and two outside the central 

 dot. Expands nearly three-quarters of an inch. {A. Disjunctaria, Staud., from Catalonia, has 

 the fore-wings less pointed, and the subterminal line rather zigzag and very slightly marked ; 

 the hind legs of the male are fully developed, though the tibiae are without spurs. A. 

 Infirmaria, Ramb., from South Europe, closely resembles Extarsoria, but is rather smaller, 

 and the second line on the fore-wings is parallel to the hind margin, and curved inwards 

 above the inner margin, but is not curved on the costa. The front legs of the male are 

 rudimentary.) 



42. A. Ledererata (Gu^n.), Aquitanaria (Const.). — Wings rather narrow, the fore-wings 

 pointed at the tips ; purplish-grey, dusted with black, and with black central dots ; two dark 

 transverse lines, and an intermediate central shade passing over the dots ; the second line is 

 rather suffused, but strongly dusted with black on the nervures, and the fringes are dark 

 lead-colour, dotted with black at the base. Expands nearly three-quarters of an inch. Inhabits 

 South France, Corsica, and Bithynia. 



*43. A. Dimidiata (Hufn.), Scutulata (W. V.). — Wings ochreous, with black central dots 

 and a slight central shade ; the fore-wings with two transverse rows of fine black dots, and 

 the hind-wings with one ; the subterminal line composed of light crescents, broadly shaded 

 with brownish-grey on the basal side at the hinder angle of the fore-wings, and sometimes 

 also on the outside ; there is no marginal line, but the base of the fringes is marked with a row 

 of black dots. Expands about three-quarters of an inch. Common in Europe and Western 

 Asia in June and July. The larva is transversely wrinkled, greenish-grey or brown, with dark- 

 double lines on the back, and dark oblique dashes. It feeds in May. {A. Miserata, Staud., 

 from Granada, differs from Bisctata by its luteous colour.) 



*44. A. Trigemiiiata (Haw.). — Wings yellowish-white, finely dusted with dark grey, with 

 a dark dentated central shade, and black central spots beyond ; the fore-wings with two 

 sharply dentated dark transverse lines, widened on the costa, and the hind-wings with one ; 

 the second line is followed on the fore-wings by large round dark grey spots arranged in 

 pairs below the costa, in the middle, and at the hinder angle ; the inner line is indistinct ; the 

 hind margin is dotted between the nervures, and at the end of the nervures before the fringes. 

 Expands about three-quarters of an inch. Common in Southern and Western Europe and in 

 Northern and Western Asia in June and July. {E. Bclcniiata, Mill, which occurs in Barcelona 

 in June and July, has rounded wings of a dark clay-colour, dotted with black atoms, with two 

 much angulated transverse lines on the fore-wings ; the second is continued on the hind-wings, and 

 is bordered outside by a large square blackish blotch on all the wings at two-thirds the length 

 of the inner margin. Fringes preceded by a row of black dots. E.xpands scarcely more than 



