HILLIA; APOEOPHYLA. By II'. Warren. 123 



26. Genus: Hillia Grote. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth, with a largo tuft of hair: palpi obliquely porrect, hairy below, the 

 terminal segment well-marked: vestiture hairy; abdomen without crests. Type Hillia iris Zett. 



H. iris Zett. (= crasis H. Sch. f. 139, semisigna Walk., senescens Grote, vigilans Grote) (28 d). Forewing purplish iris. 

 red on a fuscous ground, with some whitish irroration, principally on the veins; inner and outer lines obscure, 

 the outer indicated by the dark shade beyond it; claviform stigma marked by a black point at its end; orbi- 

 cular oblique, strongly edged laterally with black; reniform with black outline internally, with the annulus 

 white and a white lunule at centre: subterminal line whitish, broken up into points, preceded by a ferruginous 

 shading and some black between veins 1 and 3; hindwing ochreous grey, with darker cellspot and submar- 

 ginal band: erdmanni MoescM. is an aberration with reddish forewings; — crasis H. Sch. f. 134 (= schildei erdmanni. 

 Slip-.) is much darker, the forewings purplish black. An arctic species, occurring in N.Sweden, Lapland, N. crasis. 

 Russia, X. Amurland: also in Labrador and Canada. 



27. Genus: Aporophyla Guen. 



Differing mainly from Derthisa by the presence of the tongue; frons with rounded roughened prominence; 

 the vestiture hairy; wings rather long and narrow. Larva living on low plants, hybernating and feeding 

 up in spring; the imagos emerge in autumn. Type A. australis Bsd. 



Sect. I. Antennae of <J bipectinate. 



A. mioleuca Tr. (= chioleuca H.Sch., corticosa Led.) (28 d). Forewing fuscous, varied with white and mioleuca. 

 with a bluish grey suffusion: inner and outer lines double, filled in with paler; claviform stigma small, black; 

 orbicular and reniform with dark centres and pale annuli outlined in black; submarginal line whitish, with a 

 fuscous shade in front of it; some black marginal lunules; hindwing whitish, the cellspot, veins, and a slight 

 subterminal band fuscous. Found only in the S. W. of Europe, Spain, Italy, Sicily, and in Algeria. 



A. lutulenta Bkh. (= electrica F., fusca Haw., orthostigma Stph.) (30 a). Forewing fuscous brown lutulenta. 

 with a purplish grey gloss, which is more pronounced in the $$, the $<$ varying from dark to pale rufous brown; 

 lines and markings obscure; median area often darker; hindwing in $ white, with the terminal line dark, in $ 

 uniform brownish; — ab. consimilis Stph. (30 b.), is a pale grey brown form, generally without distinct mar- consimilis. 

 kings, and resembling the ordinary coloration of the $; — tripuncta Frr. (30 b)., is a very distinct dull brown tripuncta. 

 and iron-grey form, with the outer edge of the reniform whitish, slightly smaller than typical ; — luneburgensis \ un ?~ pl ~-„ 

 Frr. (= albidilinea Tutt) (30 b), from N. W. Germany, Holland, and Scotland, is purplish grey with all the 

 lines and stigmata very neatly marked and edged with paler; the median area darker; a decidedly smaller 

 and neater insect than the type. (This description is made from a specimen from the Freyer Collection marked 

 by himself); — sedi Dup. (= pallida Calb.) is ashy grey, with the 3 lines dark and neatly marked, the median sedi. 

 area often dark; it seems to me that this may really be identical with Freyer's hmeburgensis which Guenee 

 knew only from Herrich-Schaeffer's figures; the insects described by Tutt, Brit. Noct. Ill, p. 58, as sedi, 

 from Sligo, Ireland, and Loch Laggan and Eannoch, Scotland, agree perfectly with luneburgensis Frr. Generally 

 distributed throughout Europe. — Larva green, dorsally reddish-tinged in front, and laterally throughout; dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines brownish, interrupted; spiracular line sometimes red-edged above; feeding on various 

 low plants, Myosotis, Stellaria, Lithospermum, etc. 



Sect. II. Antennae of £ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



A. australis Bsd. (30 b, c). Forewing whitish grey with a slight lilac tinge; the veins darker, the australis. 

 costa, inner margin narrowly, a median shade between the stigmata, some wedge-shaped subterminal blotches 

 in the interspaces before subterminal line, and the dark chequering of the fringe brown; inner and outer lines 

 both strongly dentate, but rarely plain, except as streaks on inner margin; stigmata finely outlined with black, 

 the orbicular narrow, oblique, the reniform broader, both, when clear, with a dark centre; the streak from 

 base on submedian fold brown and indistinct; a brown shade often visible on submedian fold between clavi- 

 form stigma and outer line; hindwing in $ white, in $ slightly flushed with brown; for this type form Guenee 

 gives Provence and Corsica as localities; — ab. costata ab. nov. (30c) is a larger form, with the brown tints of the eostaia. 

 type replaced by blackish fuscous, the costal area of forewing and the fringe especially darkened; the lines 

 equally indistinct ; of this I have seen a pair from Eome, a $ marked simply Germany, and a single $ from 

 Amasia: — scriptura Frr. (30 c) is uniform dark grey, with the inner and outer lines distinct and dentate; scriptura. 



— of this ingenua Frr. (30 d) (= orientalis H. Sch., morosa Bell.) is an extreme dark form with the mark- ingenua. 

 ings in some cases quite lost in the dark suffusion: these last forms are from Greece, Turkey, and Asia Minor; . 



— Cinerea Stgr., from Morocco, is also described as having the forewings unicolorous grey; — pascuea Curt. p as ' eue a 

 (= britannica Stgr.) (30 d) is the British form, which is nearest the type, but whiter, with all the markings 



very strongly developed and black in the o, the $ pinkish grey; the orbicular stigma varies much in this 



