92 BRITISH MOTHS 



brown edged with white, the inner margin curved, the outer parallel with the apical margin of the wings; hind 

 wings pale brown. Taken near Barnstaple by Mr. Raddon, but very rare. 



" SvNoNYME. — Crambus marginatus, Haworth ; Sl'ephens ; Curtis ; Wood, pi. 54, D. Br. Sp., fig. 68. 



Species 4.— Pybalis gla0CINAlis° — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 14) — Measures from 1 to 1 1^ inch in expanse : 

 fore wings "lossy liver-coloured-brown towards the costa, with a red tinge, which is marked with several very 

 minute buff dots ; and with two slender, pale, fulvous, nearly straight strigae, one before and the other beyond 

 the middle ; hind wings pale brown, with two slender whitish strigs. Taken in many parts of the country in 

 the neighbourhood of houses. The palpi are in this species incurved, and the terminal joint is not exposed. 

 (EucUta, Hiibner.) 



" Synonymes. Phaltena Pyralis glaudnalis, Linnaeus ; Haworth ; Fabricius ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 780. 



Pyralis nitidalis, Hiibner. 



HYPSOPYGIA, HuBNER, Stephens. ASOPIA, pars, Curtis. 

 The antennae are slender and ciliated beneath in the males ; the palpi short and ascending with the terminal 

 joint, not concealed ; the fore wings elongate, triangular ; the wings entire and glossy, and the fringe and costal 

 spots of a golden colour. 



Species 1. — Hypsopygia costalisP— (Plate LXXV., Fig. 16) — Measures 8 or 10 lines in expanse ; wings 



^""**^ . purplish-red, with two slender strigae of golden colour, which terminate on the costa in large spots; apical 



^ j,^ margin and fringe also golden colour. The caterpillar feeds on the poplar ; and the moth appears m July and 



August, in gardens throughout the metropolitan district, but is rare. 



P Synonymes. — Phalcena costalis, Fabricius; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 781. 

 Pyralis Jimbrialis, Hiibner ; Godart. 



AGROTERA, Schrank, Stephens. ASOPIA, pars, Curtis. 

 The antennae are ciliated beneath in the males ; the palpi short, recurved, and close together in front of the 

 face ; the terminal joint not concealed ; the fore wings elongate-triangular, with the tip slightly falcate, and the 

 abdomen and feet much elongated, in which respect it approaches the genus Hydrocampa. 



Species 1. — Agrotera flammealis "i — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 17) — Measures from 8 to 10 lines ; wings 



^al<rfi4^ho. \ixlS^ with a rosy-purple tinge, especially beyond the middle ; costa of the fore wings dotted with whitish, 



//,2>. * nearly obsolete striga before, and a broader duplicated subapical one, between which is a dark dot on the disc ; 



hind wings with two dusky strigae across the middle, the space between them paler ; fringe of the fore wings 



near the tip, white. The caterpillar feeds on the privet ; and the moth appears from the end of June to the 



beginning of July in woods and heaths. 



1 Synonyme. — Pyralis flammealis,\l\i\mev\ Hawortli ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 782. 



