EROTYLA. 87 



Emmelia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 254 (1822 ?). 

 Agrophila, Boisduval, Gen. Ind. Meth. p. 175 (1840) ; Guenee, 

 Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. p. 204 (1852), nom. prceocc. 



Antennae short, slender, setaceous ; palpi short, straight ; eyes 

 large. Thorax round, scaly ; collar rather large. Abdomen 

 rather long, slender, sub-conical, and carinated in the male. 

 Legs bare, rather stout. Wings entire, with long fringes ; fore- 

 wings oblong, smooth and silky, with the fringes unicolorous ; 

 hind-wings unicolorous above. 



Larva long, smooth, with only two pairs of pro-legs. It 

 lives on low plants in dry places. The pupae are enclosed in 

 small earthen cocoons. 



THE SPOTTED SULPHUR MOTH. EROTYLA TRABEALIS. 



Pyralis trabealis, Scopoli, Ent. Carniol. p. 40, no 610 (1763). 

 Noctua sulphuralis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2), 



p. 881, no. 333 (1766). 



Noctua arabica, Hufnagel, Berlin. Mag. iii. p. 142, no. 95 (1767). 

 Noctua sulphured, Denis & Schiffermtiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien. p. 93, no. 6 (1776) ; Esper, Schmett. iv. (2) i. p. 576, 



Taf. 164, fig. 6 (i 793 ?) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iv. fig. 291 



(1799?). 

 Erastria sulphured, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (3), p 251 



(1826). 

 Erastria sulphuralis, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 



p. 117 (1830). 

 Emmelia trabealis, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 279 



(1881). 

 Agrophila sulphuralis, Hellins, Entom. Monthly Mag. iv. 



p. 115 (1867); Buckler, Lepid. Brit. Isl. vi. p. 89, pi. 100, 



fi gs. 5-5 c (1895). 



