ZYG/ENIN^E. 101 



Proboscis obsolete. Wings broad and rounded at the tips ; 

 fore-wings not much longer than the hind-wings. 



Abdomen not extending beyond the anal angle. The 

 females are provided with an ovipositor. 



AGLAOPE INFAUSTA. 

 (Plate LXXX. Fig. 2.) 



Sphinx infausta, Litfnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2) p. 807, no. 

 43 ( J 767); Fuessly, Archiv. t. 2, figs, i, 2 (1781); Esper, 

 Schmett. ii. p. 226, t. 35, fig. 4 (1783); Hiibner, Eur. 

 Schmett, ii. fig. 5 (1797)- 



Atychia infausta, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 17 (1808). 

 Aglaope infausta, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 85, pi. 

 21, fig. i (1879). 



Black with brown wings. The fore-wings are narrowly red on 

 the costa, inner margin, and towards the base. The hind-wings 

 are broadly red on the inner margin. It expands about an inch. 



The larva is violet, with a broad yellow stripe on the back, 

 and a whitish stripe above the legs. The head is small and 

 black. It feeds on sloe (Prunus spinosa) and other trees, and is 

 often very destructive in Southern France and Spain, the young 

 larva beginning by eating the parenchyma, and afterwards the 

 whole leaf. 



This Moth is very local in Central Europe, but is met with in 

 some localities in Western Germany, where Zygczna phegea, 

 Dysauxes antilla, and other interesting species, several of 

 which are hardly to be found elsewhere north of the Alps, 

 likewise occur. The Moth flies about sloe-bushes at dusk. 



SUB-FAMILY III. ZYG^ENIN^E. 



The antennae are filiform, and the fore-wings are much 

 longer than the hind-wings, and pointed. The hind-wings are 

 small and rounded. The colour is usually dark, with trans- 



