354 EuROPEAX Butterflies axd Moths. 



and without spurs; and the hind tarsi are short. In the female the antennse are simple, and 

 the hind tibise have four spurs. The only European species, P. Occllata (Friv.), found in Greece 

 and Western and Southern Asia in June and July, is white, with tliree rows of yellow dots on 

 the abdomen. In the centre of each wing is a large saffron-yellow spot with a black pupil, and 

 bordered with silvery, yellow, and black. There is also a curved black submarginal line, and 

 two rows of submarginal dots. The fore-wings are marked with a black inner line, and a 

 stripe behind it in addition. 



GENUS LXX. — PELLONIA (DUP.). 



Middle-sized moths ; the wings rounded, yellow, with red transverse lines ; the antennae of 

 the males pectinated. The larvse are slender, rigid, and the head with truncated angles ; they 

 undergo their transformations in a cocoon. 



1. P. Vibicaria (Clerck). — Wings ochre-yellow, with the central dots and fringes rosy; the 

 fore-wings with three rose-red transverse lines, equally far apart, and not dentated ; hind-wings 

 with two. The second line is broadly bordered with rosy behind, except in the Southern variety 

 Strigata (Stand.); hind-wings slightly angulated. Expands about i\ inches. Inhabits the 

 greater part of Central and Southern Europe in May and July. The larva is yellowish, varied 

 with brown, and with a light line on the back. It feeds on broom, sloe, Taiiacetuin, Sac, 

 in June and September. The moth is figured at PI. 47, Fig. 11. 



2. P. Calabraria (Zell.). — Resembles Vibicaria, but the two last transverse lines are very near 

 together, the space between is filled up with rosy, and the hind-wings are perfectly rounded. 

 The variety Tabidaria (Zell.) has large purplish-red central spots on the wings. P. Sicanaria 

 (Zell.), in which the inner line is absent, and the hind tibiae have generally four instead of three 

 spurs in the male, is probably also a variety. Varieties occur both in this and the preceding 

 species, in which the wings are nearly unicolorous, the red lines being nearly obliterated. 

 Expands from l;^ to \\ inches. Inhabits Europe, south of the Alps, and Western Asia, in 

 June and July. The larva is yellowish-grey, with dark longitudinal lines. It feeds on Asperula 

 calabrica till May. {P. Pcrizaria, Oberth., from Spain, is yellow, finely and thickly dusted with 

 rosy, especially on the outer half of the hind-wings ; fringes rosy ; fore-wings yellow beneath, 

 with the tip and costa dusted with reddish ; hind-wings reddish beneath, with the inner margin 

 yellow. Expands about i \ inches.) 



GENUS LXXI. — TIMANDRA (DUP.). 



Small or middle-sized moths, the fore-wings with the tips pointed, and the hind margin 

 projecting angularly on either the fore or the hind wings ; the antennae of the males pectinated, 

 but the tips bare. The larvae and transformations as in Pellonia. 



*i. T. Aniataria (Linn), (^Blood-Vein). — Wings pale ochreous, dusted with brownish, with rosy 

 fringes and a cinnamon-brown or dull red stripe running obliquely from the tip of the fore-wings 

 to the inner margin of the hind-wings, outside which is a brown terminal line ; the fore-wings 

 with the hind margin curved, and a rosy central dot ; the hind-wings rectangular, with no central 

 dot. Expands about i \ inches. Common in Europe and in Northern and Western Asia from 

 May to September. The larva is strongly thickened between segments 4 and 7 ; pale brown, 

 varied with grey, and with dark longitudinal lines on the back and sides. It feeds on Riimcx, 

 Atriplcx, &c., in June and autumn. The moth is figured at PI. 44, Fig. 7. 



2. T. Adiiitaria (Waldh.). — Fore-wings ochreous-yellow, brownish on the costa, and speckled 

 with rosy elsewhere, with a dark straight transverse line before the middle, and four slender dark 



