PARASCOT1A. 193 



FAMILY BOLETOBIID^:. 



This is a small Family which is placed by some authors in 

 the Geometrte, and by others in the Noctucz, near the Aventiidce. 

 The antennae of the male are pectinated and ciliated, with the 

 tip bare, the palpi large and hairy, and the wings festooned, 

 all marked alike. The legs are long, and the hind tibiae have 

 two pairs of long spurs. 



The larvae are cylindrical, with small bristle-bearing warts, 

 and feed on lichens and fungi, and the pupae are subterranean. 

 They have twelve legs. 



GENUS PARASCOTIA. 



Parascotia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 314 (1822?); Von 

 Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl. i. p. 699 (1859). 



Bohtobia, Boisduval, Gen. Ind. Meth. p. 201 (1840); Guene'e, 

 Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. i. p. 330 (1857); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 497 (1860). 



The only European species is the following : 



THE WAVED BLACK MOTH. PARASCOTIA FULIGINARIA. 



(Plate CXLVII., Fig. i.) 

 - , Clerck, Icones, pi. 8, fig. 7 (1759). 

 Geometra fuliginaria^ Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 327, no. 1247 



(1761). 



Geometra carbonaria, Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. 



Schmett. Wien. p. 108, no. 5 (1776); Esper, Schmett. v. 



p. 182, Taf. 32, figs. 3-6 (1794?); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. 



v. fig. 151 (1803?). 



Phalana lunulata, Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 290 (1777). 

 Phalana lignaria, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (2), p. 160, no. in 



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