bupai.us] SELIDOSEMIDAE 



7. Bupalus, Lch. 



Face roughly or loosely haired. Tongue developed. An- 

 tennae in £ bipectinated, apex simple. Palpi roughly hairy. 

 Thorax hairy beneath. Femora often hairy ; posterior tibiae 

 in 3 not dilated. Forewings in cj with fovea; 10 often con- 

 nected or anastomosing with 9, 11 usually out of 10, always 

 running into 12 or concealed by anastomosis of 10 with 12 and 

 so apparently absent. 



A small genus, characteristic of Europe ; correlated with 

 Selidosema. 



1. Forewings with distinct transverse lines . . 2. 



„ without distinct lines . . 3. 



2. Median and second lines of forewings approximated 



dorsally 2. atomarius. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, parallel 3. carbonarius. 



3. Forewings with large dark triangular apical patch 



1. piniarius. 

 ,, without such patch . . 4. limbarius. 



1. B. piniarius, L. 32-35 mm. <J. Antennal pectinations 

 long. Forewings blackish-fuscous ; costa and dorsum anteriorly 

 and base mixed with light yellow-ochreous ; a very large oblique 

 anterior pale ochreous-yellowish patch in disc, cut by two 

 suffused dark veins. Hindwings blackish fuscous ; an elongate 

 discal blotch and a variable irroration beneath this pale ochreous- 

 yellowish, crossed by two thick lines. In $? the pale colour is 

 replaced throughout by orange, and the dark by deep ferruginous, 



Britain to Ross, E. Ireland, common ; N. and G. Europe* N. 

 Asia ; 5-7. Larva pale blue-green : dorsal line white ; sub- 

 dorsal bluish-white, edged above and divided by blue-green 

 lines ; lateral pale yellow : on Pinus sylvestris and larch ; 8-9. 



2. B. atomarius, L. 24-29 mm. Antennal pectinations very 

 long. Forewings ochreous-yellow or yellowish -white, strigu 

 luted with dark ferruginous ; lines dark ferruginous, first curved, 

 median and second sinuate, sometimes confluent dorsally, prae- 

 subtorminal interrupted in middle. Hindwings as forewings, 

 but lines regular, entire, first absent ; a dark ferruginous discal 

 dot. 



Britain to the Orkneys, Ireland, common ; Europe, WC. and 

 N. Asia ; 5-7. Larva brown ; dorsal line double, pale ; sub- 

 dorsal pale ; spiracular reddish, edged above with a group of 

 fine black lines; incisions reddish : on Erica, Lotus, Trifolhtm; 

 7-9. 



