368 PYRALIDINA [ALISPA 



black terminal dots. Hindwings fuscous -whitish, termen 

 fuscous. 



Hants and Devon to Hereford, local ; C. Europe ; 6, 7, 9. 

 Larva dull green or ochreous-yellow ; dorsal line darker ; lateral 

 and more obscure spiracular series of ferruginous or purplish 

 marks ; head brown ; 3 with black lateral spot : in berries of 

 Euonymus ; 8, 10. 



6. EPISCHNIA, Hb. 



Face with rounded-conical projection of scales. Antennae 

 in $ minutely ciliated, hardly sinuate above base. Labial 

 palpi long, straight, porrected, elongate -triangularly scaled. 

 Maxillary palpi short, tolerably filiform. Forewings : 4 and 5 

 approximated. Hindwings : cell nearly reaching J, 4 and 5 

 stalked, 7 closely approximated to 8 to middle. 



A genus of about forty species, principally inhabiting S. 

 Europe and C. Asia, but also extending into N. America. 

 Imago with forewings narrow, costa little arched. 



Forewings with white costal streak . 1. boisduvaliella. 



,, without such streak . . 2. bankesiella. 



1. E. boisduvaliella, Gn. (farrella, Curt.) 20-24 mm. Fore- 

 wings brown, sometimes slightly reddish-tinged, with a few 

 black scales, becoming pale brownish-ochreous towards dorsum ; 

 a dorsal streak irrorated with whitish and more or less with 

 blackish ; a rather narrow shining white straight streak from 

 base of costa to apex, sometimes black -edged beneath, costal 

 edge above it white-mixed ; a black discal dot ; termen white- 

 mixed. Hindwings pale fuscous. 



Kent to Norfolk, on coast sandhills, local C. Europe, N. 

 and WC. Asia, N. Africa, N. America ; 6-8. Larva reddish, 

 greenish-tinged ; three or four obscure paler lines on each side ; 

 head brown -reddish : in seedpods of Anthyllis, Ononis, Lotus, 

 etc. ; 7-9. 



2. E. bankesiella, Rich. 26-27 mm. Forewings light grey, 

 darker -mixed, especially anteriorly ; veins marked with dark 

 grey streaks ; dorsum suffused with pale greyish-ochreous 

 towards base ; first and second lines indistinctly darker-edged, 

 indented near dorsum, first angulated in middle. Hindwings 

 whitish-fuscous. 



Dorset (Portland), scarce and local j not recorded else- 

 where ; 7. 



7. HYPOCHALCIA, Hb. 

 Face with somewhat rounded-projecting scales. Antennae 



