94 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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

 garden at Bloxworth, Dorset. A specimen has been recorded 

 from Paignton, Devon, 1908. 



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



Abroad, the range of the species includes southern Europe, 

 Asia Minor, Egypt, N.W. Africa, Madeira, and the Canaries. 



The Buttoned Snout {Hypena rostralis). 



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

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

 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. unicolor, 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 

 {Hmnulus luptclus) in June and early July, and in the daytime 

 may be found on the undersides of the leaves. (Plate 37, 

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

 September, and after hibernation reappears in the spring, and 

 may be met with until June. It may be obtained at sugar, or 

 at ivy bloom. Given the food plant, the species will probably 

 be found in most of the counties of England from Worcester 

 southwards, but its occurrence northwards appears to have 

 been very rarely noted. 



The range abroad extends to East Siberia. 



The White-line Snout {Hypemdes tcenialis {albistrigalis)). 



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

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



