264 European Butterflies and Moths. 



*S. 0. Bi/'itnctaria (W. V.). — Fore-wings ashy-grey, sometimes with a dark dash at the 

 tip, with dull dark transverse lines clouded inside with grey, and intersected by a paler 

 space, on which stand two black central dots ; hind margin dotted with black ; central 

 area bounded by two waved whitish lines. Expands about \\ inches. Inhabits Southern 

 and Western Europe in July and August. The larva is brownish-grey and finely hairy, 

 with three dark lines on the back. It feeds on grass and clover till June. The moth is 

 figured at PI. 48, Fig. 2. 



9. 0. Vicinaria (Dup.). — Very near Bipunctaria, but much smaller (expands about i inch) 

 and more delicate. The fore-wings are of a bluish satiny-grey, with the central area slightly 

 angulated outwards, and reddish-brown, bordered inside by two waved blackish lines, and 

 marked with two small dots in the centre, placed on a whitish space, as in Bipunctaria ; 

 and the band is also bordered outside and at both extremities by a double whitish line. 

 Nearer the base are two dark grey curved lines. The subterminal line is whitish and suf- 

 fused, and followed by a double row of black marginal dots. The fringes are concolorous, 

 and spotted with darker grey. Hind-wings pale grey, with the first half rather darker grey, 

 and the rest traversed by several lines of the same colour. It is found among rocks in the 

 P)-rcnees, Valais, and Armenia in June, but is a rarity. {0. Bitrgaria, Eversm., from the Ural, 

 resembles this. The antennae of the male are very shortly pectinated, and the fore-wings are 

 greyish-white, the central area dark grey, with no central dot, and bordered with white lines ; 

 hind-wings with a very indistinct line.) 



*iO. O. Badiata (W. V.). — Fore-wings purplish-brown, with the tip divided by a black 

 line ; the subterminal line whitish, finely zigzag, and expanded into spots in the middle, and 

 with a fine dark marginal line ; the central area is greyish-ochrcous, bordered on the sides by 

 brown bands divided with dusky, edged by a black and white line, and making two projections 

 outwards in the middle ; the antenna; of the male are shortly pectinated. Expands about 

 I \ inches. Common in Central Europe and the Altai from March to May. The larva is green 

 or brown, with white dots, and a darker line on the sides ; head yellow. It feeds on dog-rose 

 in June and July. 



*ii. O. Comitata (Linn.), Chenopodiata (Linn.). — Wings convex behind, ochre-yellow, with 

 dull dark transverse lines, black central dots, and a slightly dentated but indistinct sub- 

 terminal line ; the tip divided by a dark dash ; the base and the central area brownish, the 

 latter very broad, bounded by two whitish lines, and with a broad rectangular projection in the 

 middle ; the hind margin marked with dark dots ; hind-wings yellowish-white, with the hind 

 margin darker. Expands from \\ to \\ inches. Common in a great part of Europe and 

 Siberia from June to August. The larva is yellowish-green, chequered with black, and with a 

 yellowish-grey stripe on the sides. It feeds on Chenopodiiim in September. 



GENUS XI. — MESOTVPE (HUBN.). 



The only species, * AT. Virgata, Hiibn. {Lincolata, W. V.), is rather stout, with the wings 

 shaped as in Ortholitha, and entire ; the fore-wings are pale grey, dusted with darker, with a 

 black central spot, and the tip divided by a dusky dash, passing into the slightly-indicated 

 subterminal line ; the central area bordered by two straight parallel brownish-grey bands, 

 the first edged with whitish on the inside only, and the second on both sides ; hind-wings 

 paler, with dull dark lines before the hind margin. Expands from f to i inch. Widely 



