CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 29 
Tae ANT Hawk (4. Formiciformis, Leacn) appears the 
middle of June. Wings eight to ten and a half lines, blue- 
black ; first pair with the upper edge and a slanting line on the 
disk, orange brown, with the tip flame yellow; second pair 
with the nervures and margins brown; the abdomen black, 
with a broad flame-red belt, the tuft at the tail black, with a 
white streak on each side. Not common, Ireland, Lincolnshire, 
and near Limehouse. 
Tue Day Fry Hawk (4. Ephemereformis). Antenne pecti- 
nated; the tip hairy; wings blue-black, with yellowish brown 
nervures; abdomen withont belts. Very rare. Yorkshire. 
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BOMBYCINA (Rennre). 
HEPILADZ (STEPHENS). 
HEPIALUS (Fasricius). 
Tue GoLpEN Swirr (Hepialus Hectus, Fawricius) appears 
the middle of June. Wings one inch to one inch one-third ; 
first pair very bright yellow in the male, ashy-brown in the 
female, with three slanting bands of gold yellow spots; the 
second pair dingy. Not rare. Cumberland, Devonshire, near 
London, 
Tuk VariaBLe Swirr (H. lupulinus, Fasricius) appears 
the end of May. Wings, male one inch to one inch one-fourth, 
female one inch one-fourth to seven-twelfths; first pair yellow 
in the male, dusky-ash in the female, with a central streak, and 
two bands white ; the external one interrupted with a row of 
spots; the second pair ash-coloured. Caterpillar dusky, with 
black spots. Not uncommon in grassy meadows, 
Tne Guost Swirr (H. Humuli, Fanrictus) appears the 
middle of June. Wings, male one inch two-thirds to two inches 
one-twelfth, female one inch five-sixths to three inches; snowy 
White in the male; the female has the first pair yellow, with 
Streaks or spots; second pair dusky. Caterpillar, cream-coloured, 
with a brown head; feeds on the roots of the hop and burdock. 
Chrysalis dark brown. Common in churchyards, whence its 
_ flame, Scotland, Ireland, near London. 
Tuk BeAutiru, Swirr (H. Velleda, HAworrn) appears the 
middle of June. Wings of the male one inch four-sixths to 
five-sixths, female two inches one-sixth to one half; varied 
with yellow, livid, and white, with a row of white or silvery 
Spots on the hinder margin, and brown spots on the upper edge. 
Caterpillar is said to feed on the fern, Local. Darenth, York, 
Cheshire, Derbyshire, Wilts, Kent, Scotland. 
Tae Livip Swirt (H. carnus, FApricius). Wings, of the 
male one inch two-thirds to five-sixths, female two inches one- 
fourth to two-thirds, livid; first pair, clouded with white and 
yellow, with a series of pale spots on the inner edge; nearly 
Spotless in the female. North of England, Warwick. Perhaps a 
Variety of H. Velleda, 
