BUPALUS] SELIDOSEMIDAE 265 



7. BUPALUS, Lch. 



Face roughly or loosely haired. Tongue developed. An- 

 tennae in $ bipectinated, apex simple. Palpi roughly hairy. 

 Thorax hairy beneath. Femora often hairy ; posterior tibiae 

 in <J not dilated. Forewings in $ with fovea; 10 often con- 

 nected or anastomosing with 9, 11 usually out of 10, always 

 running into 12 or concealed by anastomosis of 10 with 12 and 

 so apparently absent. 



A small genus, characteristic of Europe ; correlated with 

 Selidosema. 



1. Forewings with distinct transverse lines . . 2. 



without distinct lines . . 3. 



2. Median and second lines of forewings approximated 



dorsally 2. atomarius. 

 ,, ,, parallel 3. carbonarius. 



3. Forewings with large dark triangular apical patch 



1. piniarius. 

 without such patch . ..4. limbarius. 



1. B. piniarius, L. 32-35 mm. <$ . Antennal pectinations 

 long. Forewings blackish-fuscous ; costa and dorsum anteriorly 

 and base mixed with light yellow-ochreous ; a very large oblique 

 anterior pale ochreous-yellowish patch in disc, cut by two 

 suffused dark veins. Hindwings blackish fuscous ; an elongate 

 discal blotch and a variable irroration beneath this pale ochreous- 

 yellowish, crossed by two thick lines. In $ the pale colour is 

 replaced throughout by orange, and the dark by deep ferruginous. 



Britain to Ross, E. Ireland, common ; N. and C. Europe, N. 

 Asia ; 5-7. Larva pale blue-green : dorsal line white ; sub- 

 dorsal bluish-white, edged above and divided by blue-green 

 lines ; lateral pale yellow : on Pinus sylvestris and larch ; 8-9. 



2. B. atomarius, L. 24-29 mm. Antennal pectinations very 

 long. Forewings ochreous- yellow or yellowish -white, strigu 

 lated with dark ferruginous ; lines dark ferruginous, first curved, 

 median and second sinuate, sometimes confluent dorsally, prae- 

 subterminal interrupted in middle. Hindwings as forewings, 

 but lines regular, entire, first absent ; a dark ferruginous discal 

 dot. 



Britain to the Orkneys, Ireland, common ; Europe, WC. and 

 N. Asia ; 5-7. Larva brown ; dorsal line double, pale ; sub- 

 dorsal pale ; spiracular reddish, edged above with a group of 

 fine black lines; incisions reddish : on Erica, Lotus, Trifolium; 

 7-9. 



