356 "EuROPEAX Butterflies and Moths. 



hind-wino-s, but behind it on the fore-wings. Common in Central and Southern Europe, and 

 Western Asia. The larva is green, with dark longitudinal lines in front, and dark angular spots 

 behind. It feeds on oak and birch. 



*7. Z. Pitnctaria (Linn.). — Wings ochreous, dusted with blackish and brick-red, with no 

 central rings, but with a broad nearly straight brick-red or brown transverse line across the 

 middle, and a row of black dots behind, and sometimes also before it ; the fore-wings often 

 clouded with grey and reddish in the marginal area, the hind-wings angulated in the middle ; 

 fringes with an interrupted black line. The variety Sitppuiictaria (Zell.) is smaller and paler, and 

 the dots are absent or indistinct. Common in Central and Southern Europe, and Western Asia. 

 The larva is brown or green, with a dark line on the back and a yellow stripe on the sides of 

 the first and last segments ; the middle segments arc marked with dark angles on the back and 

 yellow spots on the sides. It feeds on oak, birch, &c. 



*8. Z. Trilincaria (Borkh.). — Bright ochreous-yellow, generally dusted with brown, with a 

 brown and nearly straight central shade, two brown transverse lines, the outermost often broken 

 into dots, and rather indistinct whitish central spots, often surrounded with dusky, which are 

 smaller on the fore-wings, and stand distinctly before the central shade on the hind-wings ; 

 fringes unicolorous, with an interrupted black line at their base. Common in Central Europe. 

 The larva is green, dotted with white, belly reddish, head brown. It feeds on oak, &c. The 

 moth Is figured at PI. 47, Fig. 12. 



*9. Z. Strabonaria (Zell.). — A variety of the last, according to Staudinger ; smaller, with the 

 tips of the fore-wings more pointed ; reddish-ochreous, finely dusted with reddish ; the central 

 shade reddish-grey ; the transverse lines continuous, with dark dots, the whitish central dots not 

 bordered with dusky, and placed close to the central shade on the hind-wings ; marginal line 

 reddish and continuous. Inhabits Silesia, Nassau, &c. (This description agrees fairly with some 

 of the British specimens of Trilincaria before me.) 



10. Z. Rtificiliaria (Herr.-Schafif.). — Resembles the preceding species; hind-wings rounder, 

 distinctly and coarsely speckled with dusky, with a brown central shade, and rows of brown 

 dots ; fringes red. Inhabits South-Central Europe. Staudinger considers it to be a variety of 

 Piinctaria. 



FAMILY II.— PHYTOMETRID^. 



The costal nervure of the hind-wings rises from the median nervure a little before the 

 angle of the latter, or close to it. The fore-wings have always twelve nervures, and (except in 

 Anisoptcryx) an accessory cellule, which is often divided by an oblique nervure running from the 

 subcostal nervure. On the hind-wings, nervure 5 is as thick as the other nervures ; and there 

 is very rarely more than one internal nervure, which is sometimes absent ; in some genera the 

 ncuration is different in the sexes, and in others the females have rudimentary wings. The body 

 is never stout, and the body and legs are clothed with flattened scales ; the palpi and femora 

 are not hairy, except in Lytliria. All the Phytometridce sit with their wings flat, and in some 

 genera the hind-wings are not covered by the fore-wings when at rest. 



GENU.S I. — ANISOPTEKYX (STEPH.). 



Middle-sized moths, with small bodies and broad, delicate, thinly-scaled wings, the fore- 

 wings with the tips rounded, and the hind margin long and entire; pale, with two dark dentated 

 transver.se lines ; hind-wings rounded, paler, and without markings ; antennc-e of the males ciliated. 



