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Common in Southern and Western Europe, and in Northern and Western Asia, in July and 

 August. The larva is long and slender, yellowish, greenish, or bluish-grey, with large broun 

 spots on the back and sides. It feeds on various shrubs, and often remains motionless for 

 several hours together, curved into a semicircle. 



79. A. Eugeniata (Mill.). — Wings flesh-colour, dusted with dark atoms, and with black central 

 dots ; the second line is ill-defined, though rather broad and continuous ; the third line is marked 

 with a row of small dots on the nervures, and there is a row of similar dots at the base of the 

 pink fringes, beyond the black marginal line. The under side is paler, with the second line and 

 dots well marked. Expands rather more than I inch. It is found at Marseilles in July. 



80. A. Dccorata (W. V.). — Wings white, not dusted with darker, bluish in the marginal 

 area, with a white dentated subterminal line, black central dots, often indistinct on the fore- 

 wings, and a grey central shade ; the fore-wings with two fine black lines, the second curved 

 and slightly dentated, and the hind-wings with one line ; the hind margin waved, dotted 

 with black above the middle, and excavated on the hind-wings above the middle ; the fringes 

 intersected with dusky, and marked with two rows of dark lunules ; collar dark brown. 

 Expands about i inch. Common in many parts of Europe, except the north and north-west, 

 in Western Asia, and in North Africa, from May to August. A yellowish variety (Honcstata, 

 Mab.) is found in Corsica and Sardinia. The larva is long and cylindrical ; yellowish, with 

 several dark lines on the back, and a broad white stripe on the sides. It feeds on thyme 

 in April, May, and July. {A. Subtilata, Christoph, from Sarepta, is allied to Decorata ; 

 whitish, with all the lines well marked, the second broad and enclosing a black dot ; hind 

 margin bluish-grey, with three brown spots, and the adjacent space varied with bluish-grey on 

 the cqsta, and towards the third line. The subterminal line is broad and white, and the 

 hind margin is spotted with black and whitish, with a terminal brown and white line, and 

 the fringes brown. Hind-wings pure white,' with the markings less distinct. It flies in May, 

 June, August, and September. 



*8i. A. Oniata (Scop.).— Differs from Decorata by the marginal area, which is varied 

 with golden-brown and pale grey ; the second line projects more forward below the costa, 

 and the collar is rusty-brown. Size of Decorata. Common in many parts of Europe, North 

 Africa, and Western Asia, from May to August. The larva is grey, with several dark 

 longitudinal lines ; it feeds on th)-me in June and September. {_A. Congruata, Zell., from 

 Sicily, is rather smaller ; the lines are more conspicuous, and the submarginal shades are 

 bluish-grey, and divided into spots ; the brown marginal dots are very small on the fore- 

 wings, and are absent on the hind-wings.) 



82. A. Concinnaria (Dup.). — White or yellowish-white, marked nearly as in Oniata, but 

 the hind margin less denticulated ; the first and second lines are rusty-brown, the first 

 angulated, often slightly marked, and not continued on the hind-wings; the second much den- 

 tated ; the third black, also dentated, and followed by a bluish-grey submarginal shade, divided 

 by the white subterminal line, which is sometimes partly broken into spots ; the fringes are 

 yellowish, preceded by a black line, broken into long spots, but with no dark markings on the 

 fringes themselves. Expands about i^ inches. Inhabits Andalusia. 



GENUS LXIX. — PROBLEPSIS (LED.). 



Body rather stout in both sexes, wings broad, stout and entire, the hind margin of the 

 fore-wings slightly curved. The antennie are pubescent in the male ; the hind tibia; are silky, 

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