94 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



September, 1884. He found it sitting on a door-jamb in his 



garden at Blox worth, Dorset. 



The specimen shown on Plate 36, Fig. 9, hails from Mogadon 

 Abroad, the range of the species includes southern Europe, 



Asia Minor, Egypt, North-West Africa, Madeira, and the 



Canaries. 



%. '• ai^""' The Buttoned Snout {Hvpena rostrahs). 



1»^ Two forms of this species are shown on Plate 35. The 



t.***^ typical one is represented by Fig. 12, and Fig. 11 shows ab. 



'' .-A palpalis^ Tutt (?), Fabr. and Stephens. The front margin of 



.^,^ the fore wings is often streaked with a pale colour, and in ab. 



^'^ '^ radiatalis^ Hiibner (134), which is otherwise similar to the last- 



'^ named form, this is pale or ochreous brown. A uniform pale 



greyish form has been named ab. unicolot'^ Tutt, and one 



almost entirely ochreous or greyish- ochreous, ab. ochrea^ Tutt. 



The caterpillar is green, with blackish dots ; a darker line 

 along the middle of the back, and white lines along the sides ; 

 head, yellowish green dotted with black. It feeds on hop 

 {Hiiinulus lupiilus) in June and early July, and in the daytime 

 may be found on the undersides of the leaves. (Plate y]^ 

 Fig. 2 ; after Hofmann.) The m oth is out in August and 

 Se ptember, and after hibernation reappears in the spring, and 

 may be met with until June. It may be obtained at sugar, or /i*<C- 

 at ivy bloom. Given the food plant, the species will probably ^i./*-*""^ 

 be found in most of the counties of England from Worcester /»^"*^^* ' 

 southwards, but its occurrence northwards appears to have ^. J^ 

 been very rarely noted. ztiil^"*^ 



The range abroad extends to East Siberia. 



The White-line Snout (Hypenodes tcenialis {albisfrigalis)). 



This species, and also the two immediately following, are so 

 small in size, and so obscure in appearance, that they are 



