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irregular interrupted dusky fascia on the hinder margin ; cilia 

 dusky yellow." (Stephens.) An example of this form in the 

 British Museum collection, was taken near Bristol, in July, 1815. 



British Localities. — Bristol; Folkestone; Bury St. Ed- 

 munds. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe ; Syria ; 

 Canaries. 



Note. — This species varies considerably in tone and intensity 

 of colour of forewings, and the black border of hind wings 

 is subject to modification as regards its breadth, in some examples 

 this band is contracted, and in others interrupted before the anal 

 angle. 



BOTYS REPANDALIS, Schiff. (PI. IV. fig. 6.) 

 BRIT. REF. : — 



Botys repandalis, Barrett, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxiii. p. 145. 



" Closely allied to hyalinalis and pandalis, but of a paler 

 yellow, and decidedly smaller than either, being of about the size 

 of verbascalis, but with narrower fore wings. The fore wings are 

 of a delicate pale straw-colour, and the markings, which closely 

 resemble those of hyalinalis, are of a faint yellowish grey. The 

 first line is comparatively straight, the second also straight from 

 the middle of the dorsal margin to the middle of the wing, where 

 it touches the discal streak or stigma, then turns abruptly towards 

 the hind margin, and makes a wide sweep before turning again 

 towards the costa ; the third is parallel with the hind margin. 

 These three lines are continued upon the silky whitish hind 

 wings " (Barrett). 



Introduced by Mr. Barrett, December, 1886. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe. 



Note. — Bred some years previous to 1866 by the Rev. Henry 

 Burney, who reared specimens from larvae found feeding, in June, 

 in the heads of young shoots of Verbascum nigrum, growing on the 

 south coast of Devonshire. The larva is described as " Yellowish 

 white, with black spots." 



Ebulea stachydalis. Zinck. (PI. IV. fig. 10.) 



BRIT. REF. : — 



Ebulea stachydalis, Barrett, Ent. Mo. Mag. xii. p. 158; xiii. 



p. 93 ; xiv. p. 159 ; Carrington, Entom. x. p. 81 (woodcut) ; 



Bond. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876 ; Buckler, E. M. M. 



xiii. p. 133 (larva) ; McLachlan, op. cit. p. 64; Jeffrey, E. 



M. M. xiv. p. 115; Rogers, Entom. xvi. p. 46; South, 



Syn. List, p. 18; Leech, Brit. Pyral. p. 39, pi. v. fig. 3. 

 Usually smaller than E. sambucalis, which in colour and 

 marking it greatly resembles, but the pale yellow or whitish 

 triangular spot placed below the larger square spot on the fore 

 wing of that species is absent in stachydalis, and the submarginal 

 line, composed of pale yellow or whitish spots in both species, is 



