402 EUKOPEAN BmrERlLIES AXD Moiiis. 



line is very slightly zigzag, the middle stripe passes over the central spot, and the hinder 

 stripe is slightly curved below the costa ; the hind-wings are a little lighter and unicolorous, 

 with faint traces of the last double stripe. Expands about three-quarters of an inch. Inhabits 

 Central Europe in May and June, but scarce. The larva is green, with a darker line on the 

 back ; it feeds on the buds and seeds of Hcracleum, SpJiondylinm, Peucedaiuim, &c. 



*59. E. Virgaurcata (Crewe), Piinpinellata (Guen.). — Fore-wings broader and more pointed 

 than in Satyrata, uniform reddish slaty-grey, waved with darker, with a strongly-marked black 

 central lunule, and the nervures dotted with black and white ; the costa spotted with light 

 and dark, the double bands indistinct, the second sharply angulated inwards below the costa, 

 the subterminal line whitish, and slightly zigzag, with sharper teeth towards the costa, and 

 expanded into a small white spot above the hinder angle ; hind-wings a little paler. Expands 

 from f to I inch. Inhabits Central Europe in April, and from June to August; but scarce 

 and local. The larva is slender, orange, with a row of black triangular spots on the back, and 

 oblique yellowish or whitish streaks on the sides. It feeds on the flowers of golden rod, 

 ragweed, &c., in July and September. 



*6o. E. Vnlgata (Haw.). — Fore-wings narrow, rust-coloured, varied with dark grey on tlie 

 costa, with a small black central dot, the nervures dotted with black, and yellowish in the 

 marginal area, the double bands whitish, often not much lighter than the ground-colour, and 

 the last angulated below the costa, the subterminal line finely white, zigzag, and expanded 

 into a spot above the hinder angle ; the hind-wings rust-coloured, waved with dusky. Ex- 

 pands about three-quarters of an inch. Common in Central Europe in May and June. The 

 larva is reddish or yellowish-brown, with sharply-defined lozenge-shaped spots on the back sur- 

 rounded with dusky, and waved dark subdorsal lines. It feeds on golden rod, willow, and 

 many other plants in August and September. 



*6i. E. Denotata (Hiibn.), Campanulata (Ilerr.-Schaff.). — Fore-wings broad, with the tips 

 rounded, uniform reddish slaty-grey, or rusty yellowish-grey, with a large black central spot, 

 the subterminal line dull whitish, not paler and scarcely thicker on the inner margin, the 

 double bands very indistinct, and slightly bordered with dusky on the costa ; the last is 

 angulated inwards below the costa, and marked with dull dark spots on the nervures on the 

 basal side ; hind-wings short, truncated in the middle, grey, with the costa whitish. 

 Expands about three-quarters of an inch. Inhabits Central Europe from May to August. 

 The larva is pale ochreous brown, with two dark triangular spots on the middle segments, 

 between which is an oval spot of the ground-colour; these spots diminish gradually before and 

 behind into a dorsal stripe. It feeds in the capsules of Cainpannla trachclium in September 

 and October. 



62. E. Selinata (Herr.-Schaff.). — Very like Denotata, the fore-wings more yellowish-brown, 

 only slightly shading into grey ; the double bands tolerably distinct, especially on the costa, 

 the subterminal line more distinctly whitish, and pure white above the hinder angle, but not 

 widened ; the nervures dotted with brown, especiallj' before the last double band ; hind-wings 

 rather long, with the hind margin obliquely truncated. E.xpands nearly i inch. It occurs 

 ^t Frankfort-on-the-Maine, and the larva feeds on Pcuccdanuin oreoscliiiuin at the end of June. 

 (Staudinger places this species, with doubt, as a variety of Trisignaria.) 



*63. E. Albipunctata (Haw.), Tripiinctaria (Herr.-Schiiff.). — Fore-wings uniform slate-colour, 

 with or without a central black spot, the nervures thickly dotted with black and white, and the 

 double bands generally indistinct. The subterminal line is expanded on all the wings into a 

 large pure white spot above the hinder angle, and a small one above the middle ; there is often 



