pterophoiiid;e. 59 



Mimaeseoptilus phseodactylus, Hb. 



Innadacfi/his, Haw. 



(Plate 17. fig. 4.) 



Loc. Exmouth, Teignmouth, Epsom, Leathcrhead, 

 Micklchanij Box Hill, Folkestone, Maidstone, Caterham 

 Valley, Croydon, Dover. 



This species occurs in July ; it flies about dusk, but 

 is easily disturbed by day. 



The larva feeds in June and July on Ononis spinosa 

 and repens, eating the terminal leaves. 



The ground-colour of the larva is green ; segmental 

 divisions paler; dorsal line bluish green; head whitish 

 green, marked with black ; tubercles black, with a tuft 

 of short white bristles and a long grey hair; legs semi- 

 transparent, dotted with grey. Ent. xvi. 75. 



Mimaeseoptilus bipunctidactyla. Haw. 



serotinus, Zell. 



(Plate 17. fig. 5.) 



Loc. Glasgow, Possil Marsh, Milngavie, Devon, Bram- 

 ham, Grassington, Redear, Sheffield, Norwich, Merton, 

 Cawston, Ranworth, Wallasey, Brandon, Folkestone, 

 Dover, llowth, Belfast, Pembroke. 



Generally distributed in July and August. 



Var. aridus, of British collections, is a pale ochrcous 

 form of bipunctidactyla. 



The larva feeds in May and September upon the 

 terminal leaves of Scabiosa arvensis and Galium mollugo. 



