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on the back. It feeds on bedstraw, and forms its pupa on the surface of the ground, in a 

 firm cocoon. 



85. L. Disjunctaria (Lah.), from Sicily and South Spain, differs from Rivata by its pectinated 

 antennae; the central band is larger and darker than in Fluctiiata ; entire, and very little 

 suffused behind, where it forms two distinct angles, and two excavations. 



86. L. Frigidaria (Guen.). — Wings narrow and rather silky, smoky-brown, fringes unicolorous 

 and scarcely spotted ; fore-wings with the tip rather long, and obliquely contracted at the hind 

 margin, dusted with yellowish-grey atoms, covering the base and disc, leaving only the central 



.area brown, which is rather narrow, and composed of four contiguous annular spots ; the first 

 is largest, having all the costa and the discoidal spot dark ; it is followed by a short dentated 

 line. Hind-wings narrow and rather lighter, with the central line dentated, but not angulated, 

 close to the discoidal spot below. Inhabits Lapland. 



2>J. L. Alfacaria (Staud.) has dirty grey fore-wings, with paler waved bands, central area 

 scarcely darker, hind-wings unicolorous, with a brown dot at the end of the cell, indistinct 

 above ; antennae pectinated in the male. It occurs in the mountains of Andalusia in July and 

 August. 



88. L. Teinpestaria (Herr.-Schaff.). — Fore-wings brownish-grey, with two broad ill-defined 

 pale grey double stripes, which are not divided, and another towards the base, the central 

 area paler in the middle below the costa, and the subterminal line only visible before the tip ; 

 hind-wings a little lighter, with a broad pale curved stripe, and the hind margin without 

 markings. Expands about if inches. From the Tyrolese Alps. 



89. L. Frustata (Tr.). — Fore-wings pale grey, varied with yellowish-green, especially on 

 the sides of the central area, and dusted with blackish ; the central area with a tri-lobed 

 projection in the middle, and a bi-lobed one beneath it, the double stripes a little lighter, the 

 subterminal line filled up with dark grey above the middle, and broken into spots below ; 

 hind-wings rounded, dusted with grey, with the double stripe simply curved, and nervules 5 

 and 6 rising near together; antennae of the male not pectinated. Expands about i-^ inches. 

 Inhabits South-Central and Southern Europe and Western Asia from May to July, but not 

 very common. Its green colour is very liable to fade to yellowish. {L. Cuprcaria, Herr.-Schaff., 

 from Sicily, is smaller than Badiayia ; the fore-wings are of a nearly uniform ferruginous, the 

 tip is divided by a dark dash, and the hind-wings are paler. L. Liuiificata, Staud., from 

 Greece, is greyish, varied with yellow, with many dark waved lines and black marginal 

 dots ; hind-wings whiter at the base, and the antennae simple. L. Unifoniiata, Chav., 

 from Catalonia, much resembles this, but has a black marginal line formed of connected 

 lunules, within which is a zigzag whitish line, which is represented by a row of spots in 

 Ludificata.) 



P. — Fore-iviiigs with a very long oblique hind margin, the central area not darker, and both 

 edges almost straight, the subterminal line only indicated by dark shading, the tip divided zuith 

 dusky, and the hind margin marked with black double dots ; nervule 5 on the hind-wings rising 

 from the hinder half of the discocellular nervule. 



90. L. Verbcrata (Scop.), Riipestrata (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings whitish, finely dusted with brown, 

 with very slightly waved, rusty-brown transverse lines, most numerous at the base and before 

 the subterminal line ; hind-wings dirty white, with a darker curved line before the hind margin. 

 Expands about i^ inches. Inhabits the mountains of South-Central Europe in July. The 

 larva is dark green, with yellow lines on the back and sides. It feeds on fir in May and June. 



91. L. Vespcrtaria (W. V.). — Fore-wings whitish, thinly dusted with brown ; darker before 

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