252 BRITISH MOTHS AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 



EUCLIDIA, OfHSENHEIMER. 



• This genus has much of tho habit of the preceding, but differs iu the palpi, which are of moderate size, and 

 bent upwards, with the terminal joint attenuated ; the antenna simple ; the fore wings form a triano-le when 

 closed, and the larvse are very long, slender, and vermiform, twisting about in all directions, and havinc onlv 

 twelve feet. Mr. Stephens, indeed, described them as sixteen-footed, which Mr. Curtis attempted to correct by 

 stating that they possess fourteen feet, ingeniously throwing a leaf over that portion of his figure of the larva 

 which would have shown his own error. The head of the caterpillar is of large size ; they feed on low-orowing 

 plants. These insects fly in the afternoon sunbeams, and are very active : a peculiarity indicated by the spines 

 on the four posterior tibise,* which are analogous to those on the feet of the Phryganiidfe. 



SPECIES ].— EUCLIDIA GLYPHICA. Plate LVl., Fio. 10. 



SvNONYMES PhaltEna Xoctua ghjphica, Linnaius; Hiibuer; H.awortli ; StepheDs ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 659 ; Wood, Ind. Ent., 17 



fig. 447. 



This species measures about li inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are glaucous brown, with two 



converging brown bars running across the middle, and a brown patch near the extremity of the costa ; the hind 



■wings dull orange, with the veins, the inner and apical margins irregularly, and an abbreviated slender striga 



beyond the middle dark brown. The caterpillar is rusty gray, with brown dorsal and lateral streaks, the latter 



with black dots on each side. It feeds on species of Verbascum, Trifolium, &c., and the n;oth appears about 



the end of June, frequenting the sides of clover fields near woods, and being rather common and dispersed all 



over the kingdom. 



SPECIES 2.— EUCLIDIA MI. Plate LVI., Fig. U, 12. 



Synonyme. — Phaltena Nocliia Mi, Liniia'ua ; Treitschkc ; Hijbner ; Hawoith ; Stephens. ; Wood, Ind. Ent., plate 17, fig. 448 ; Hairie, 



^ Aurelian, pi. 41. fig. S. 



This species measures rather less than 1 l inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a blackish- 

 brown colour, with numerous buffish-wliite, sinuated lines, giving the wing the appearance of being mapped 

 out ; the hind vsdngs are also blackish-brown, with two rather large oval patches near the centre, followed by 

 a sinuated slender fascia, and an irregular submarginal row of spots, all of bufiish -white. The caterpillar is 

 dirty white, with a dark lino down the back, and a pale one on each side. It feeds on Medicago falcata, as 

 well as a kind of grass, on which it was reared by Lyonnet, whose posthumous researches contain an excellent 

 memoir of this curious species. Tlie moth appears at the end of May and in June, frequenting clover-fields, and 

 being a widely-dispersed and abundant species. 



NocTUA TRIQUETRA (Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; Hiibner; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., pi. 54, fig. 57 ; 

 Noctna fortificata, Fabricius ; Pyralis fascialis, Villars), a native of Hungary and Italy, was erroneously 

 introduced into our Britisli lists by Mr. Samouelle, in mistake for the preceding species. It has the fore wings 

 ashy, with black and brown triangular spots ; and the hind wings yellowish, with a brown fascia and apical 

 margins. 



* Mr. Curtis has overlooked these spines in the hind feet, although he figures them iu the middle tibia'; they exist in both our English species. 



