484 BRITISH LEPLDOPTERA. 



Schiff., " Sys. Verz.," p. 58, no. 8 (1776) ; Goze, "Beit.," iii., pt. 2, p. 340 (1779) ; 

 Esp., " Schmett. Eur.," iii., pi. xlv., figs. 1-6, p. 232 (1785); Bkh., "Sys. 

 Besch.," iii., p. 127, no. 34 (1790) ; "Rhein. Mag.," i., p. 367 (1793); Don., "Nat. 

 Hist. Brit. Ins.," iv., p. 23, pi. 117 (1795); Hb., "Eur. Schmett.," iii., p. 141, no. 4, 

 fig. 162 (? 1800) ; " Larvae, &c," iii., Bomb. M. b. (by error) figs, la-cl (? 1803); " Verz.," 

 p. 188 (? 1822); Ochs., "Die Schmett.," iii., p. 278 (1810); Germ., "Prod. Sist.Bomb.," 

 p. 49 (1811) ; Godt., " Hist. Nat.," p. 122, no. 27, pi. xii., figs. 3-4 (1822) ; Curt., 

 "Brit. Ent.," expl. pi. 229 (1828) ; " Guide," p. 142 (1829) ; Stphs., " 111. Haust.," 

 ii., p. 42, no. 43 (1828) ; "Cat. Brit. Ins.," p. 47 (1829) ; "List Br. An. Br. Mus.," 

 v., let ed., p. 47 (1850) ; 2nd ed., p. 44 (1856) ; Meig., " Eur. Schmett.," ii., p. 203 

 (1830) ; Wood, " Ind. Ent.," no. 45 (1839); Bdv., " Gen. et. Ind.," p. 70 (1840); Dup., 

 " Cat. Lep. Eur.," p. 75 (1844); H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," ii., pp. 101, 105 (1847); Boh., 

 "Vet. Ak. Handl.," 1848, p. 133 (1848) ; Humph, and Westd., "Brit. Moths," 2nd 

 ed., pp. 55, 56, pi. x., figs. 13-14 (1851) ; Sta., " Man.," i., p. 155 (1857) ; Hein., 

 " Schmett. Deutsch.,"pp.201,207 (1859); Humph., " Gen. Brit. Moths," p. 24 (1860) ; 

 Ebr., "Cat. Lep. And.," p. 360 (1866); Snell., " De Vlind.," p. 186 (1867); 

 Nolck., "Lep. Fn. Est.," i., p. 126 (1868) ; Wallgrn., " Skand. Het.," ii., pp. 66, 67 

 (1869) ; Newni., " Brit. Moths," p. 41 (1869) ; Staud., " Cat.," p. 67 (1871) ; Bang- 

 Haas, "Nat. Tids.," (3), ix., p. 411 (1874); Guenee, "Lep.Eure-et-Loir," p. 80 (1875); 

 Curo, "Bull. Soc. Ent. It.," viii., p. 148 (1876); Frey," Lep. der Schweiz," p. 

 94 (1880); Leeuwen, " Tijds. v. Ent.," xxiii., p. 195, pi. xii., figs. 1-9(1880); 

 Lampa, "Ent. Tids.," vi., p. 41 (1885) ; Buckl., " Larvae etc.," iii., pi. xlix., fig. 2 

 (1889); Auriv., "Nord. Fjar.," p. 61 (1889); "Iris," vii., pp. 140,142(1894); 

 Strom, "Damn. Somni.," p. 22 (1891); Riihl, "Soc. Ent.," v., p. 170 (1891) ; 

 Kirby, " Cat.," p. 837 (1892); Carad., "Iris," viii., p. 90 (1895); Meyr., "Hand- 

 book," p. 322 (1895) ; Barr., "Brit. Lep.," iii., p. 5 (1896) ; Tutt, "Brit. Moths," 

 p. 59 (1896) ; " Proc. South Lond. Ent. Soc," pp. 1-11 (1898); Dyar, " Can. Ent.," 

 xxx., pp. 4, 5 (1898); "Ent. Record," xi., p. 141(1899); Grote, "Illus. Zeits. fur Ent.," 

 p. 71 (1898) ; Reutti, " Lep. Bad.," 2nd ed., p. 56 (1S98). Floccosa, Clerck, " Icones," 

 pi. v., fig. 1 (1759). Vitis-ideae, Linn., " Fauna Suec," 2nd ed., p. 309, no. 1163 

 (1761). Sylvina, Fuess., "Mag. Ent.," ii., p. 11 (1779). Bicaudata, Retz., "Gen. 

 Spec. Ins.," p. 36 (with ref. to De Geer, Mem., i., p. 193, ii., p. 300) (1783). Mali, 

 Fab., "Mant.," ii., p. 115, no. 75 (1787); "Ent. Syst.," hi., p. 434, no. 85 (1793) ; 

 Bork., " Sys. Besch.," hi., p. 468 (1790). Avellanae, Fab., " Mant.," ii., p. 116, 

 no. 76 (1787); Bork., "Sys. Besch.," ii., p. 468 (1790). Crataegus, Haw., "Lep. 

 Brit.," p. 105, no. 37 (1803). Pallidus, Haw., "Lep. Brit.," p. 105, no. 38 (1803). 



Original description. — Phalaena (Bombyx) elinguis, alis deflexis 

 cinereis rotundatis : fascia obscuriore, ano barbato. Habitat in 

 Crataego (Sys. Nat., xth ed., p. 502). 



Imago. — Anterior wings whitish, ashy, or brownish-grey, with a 

 more or less distinct darker median transverse band ; this is bounded 

 internally by a blackish line curved to the thorax, externally by a 

 doubly-angulated transverse line ; the curved line includes a darker 

 somewhat oval patch (grey or brown) at base of costa ; there is also 

 a waved submarginal line. Posterior wings grey with a pale median 

 transverse shade internally edged with darker. 



Sexual, dimorphism. — The males vary from 26-5mm.-34mm. (our 

 British examples being some 3mm. -5mm. less in expanse than the 

 continental ones in the European collection), the females from 30mm.- 

 40mm. (the British examples also averaging some 3mm. -4mm. less 

 than the continental). The males are thus smaller than the females ; 

 the antennae of the males much more strongly pectinated, the ground 

 colour greyish (sometimes whitish), with a darker band, and waved 

 submarginal line. The females are larger, rounder-winged, more 

 uniformly coloured, much darker, cinereous-grey, often brownish ; the 

 basal patch browner ; the median band rather darker, edged externally 

 with paler, which increases the banded appearance. The fringes are 

 usually much more distinctly chequered in the males than in the 

 females ; the latter sex, too, has a distinct anal tuft. 



