282 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



bearing black hair on the fifth and twelfth segments, and 

 above the legs runs a double chain of yellow spots. 



It feeds principally on aspen (Populus tremula). The pupa 

 is reddish-brown with black wing-cases. 



THE SCARCE CHOCOLATE-TIP. MELALOPHA ANACHORETA. 



Bombyx curtula, Hufnagel (nee Linn.), Berl. Mag. ii. (4) p. 408, 



no. 20 (1766) ; Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 574, no. 81 (1775) ; 



Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 256, Taf. 51, figs. 1-4 (1875). 

 Bombyx anachoreta^ Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 120, no. 114 



(1787); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii. fig. 88 (1800); 



Godart, Lepid. France, iv. p. 230, pi. 21, fig. 6 (1822). 

 Pygcera anachoreta, Qchsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 230 



(1810); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 135, pi. 



24, fig. 8 (1880). 

 Clostera anachoreta, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 13 



(1828); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. pi. 37, fig. 2 



(1889); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. iii. p. 169, pi. 114, figs. 



2, 2^-^(1895). 



The Scarce Chocolate-Tip has a wide range, extending 

 through Europe into Northern and Western Asia. It expands 

 about i^ inch. 



The fore-wings are bluish-grey, with whitish transverse lines. 

 Near the tip is a large spot of a greyish-brown colour, varied 

 with rusty-brown. Through this runs a white sub-marginal 

 line, and near the hind margin is a row of blackish-brown dots, 

 which may be connected, forming a line. On the inner mar- 

 gin are two black spots of unequal size, placed one above the 

 other. The hind-wings and under side are ashy-grey, as is also 

 the body. 



The larva is yellowish-grey, flesh-coloured or grey on the back, 

 with interrupted blackish longitudinal lines, and alternate black 



