98 BRITISH MOTHS 



PHLYCT^NIA, HiBNEH. HYDROCAMPA, paes, Stephens (Cat.) SCOPULA, pars, Cubtis. 

 This insect forms an interesting link between the China-marks and some of the succeeding insects, especially 

 some of the species of Margaritia. It has elongate labial palpi, horizontally porrected ; small acute maxillary 

 palpi ; a very long spiral tongue ; wings dark-coloured, but with large pale blotches ; whilst the caterpillar is 

 terrestrial, feeding on the elder, and making a cocoon, in which it undergoes its transformations. 



Species 1. — PHLYCT.a!NiA sambucalis' — (Plate LXXTI., Figs. 27, 28) — Varies from f to 1 inch in 

 fy^j^^ expanse ; wings glossy mouse-brown ; the fore ones with four unequal-sized white blotches on the disc ; outer 



.^w/^tco^-^' one the largest, followed by a curved maculated striga of the same colour, widest towards the costa; hind wings 



with similar markings. The caterpillar is pale green, with pale lines. It feeds on the elder ; and the moth 



appears in June. It is very common in gardens. 



'Symonyme. — Pyralis samhucalis, Wicn. Terz. ; Fabricius ; Haworth ; Albin, pi. 37, fig. 59, a — i ; Hubner ; Stepbens ; Wood, fig. 803. 



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EUDIOPTIS, Hubner. DIAPHANIA, Stephens (Catal.) 



The very exotic-looking type of this genus may at once be distinguished by its semi-transparent pale pearly 

 wings, having a narrow dark margin ; the fore ones very acute at the tip, and obliquely truncate ; and the palpi 

 are densely squamose, forming a mask in front of the face ; the maxillary palpi are minute. 



Species 1. — Etjdioptis lucebnalis™ — (Plate LXXYI., Fig. 29) — Measures 10 or 11 lines in expanse; 

 i^ ^•„, vmgs pearly white ; the anterior with the costa and apical margin, and the posterior with the apical maro-in, 



*""*^ &/ broadly blackish ; base of the abdomen pearly white. Taken near Plymouth, and also at Mickleham, in 

 October, by J. Walton, Esq. 



" Synonyme. — Pyralis lucernalis, Hubner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; 'Wood, fig. 804. 



NOMOPHILA, Stephens. SCOPULA, pars, Curtis. 



The antennee are slender and ptibescent beneath in the males ; the labial palpi porrected and bent upwards, 

 densely squamose ; the fore wings are long and narrow, and in repose they are slightly deflexed and convoluted ; 

 they, and especially the hind wings, are semi-transparent ; the body is long and slender. Mr. Stephens, in his 

 Illustrations, has removed the genus to the family Tineidse. 



Species 1. — Nomophila hybridalts" — (Plate LXXYI., Fig. 30) — Measures from 10 to 14 lines in 



expanse ; fore wings grey-brown; towards the base of the wing is a slender dusky striga, often obsolete, followed 



<//f«^7f^ *. ijy. j^ large, central, darker fascia ; and beyond this, towards the costa, a large dark patch, followed by an 



isTi. indistinct dusky curved striga ; at the extremity of the costa, and on the apical margin, are some dark spots ; 



hind wings paler. Taken in July and August, in different parts of the country, and not uncommon. I have 



taken it in the Isle of "Wight, in August, in rushy places. 



" Synonymes. — Pyralis lt!ibridaUs, Hubner; Haworth; Stephens; 'Wood, fig. 1476. 

 Tinea noctuella, "Wien. Verz. 



