Lepido'ptera of Devon and Cornwall. 
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Gen. CVCVZiZiZA, Och. 
326. C. Verbascl, Lin. 
Pha-Noctua Verbasci, Lin. Sys. Nat. 850. 
Cucullia Verbasci, West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. i. 221, pi. 48, fig. 7.— Staint. 
Man. i. 285. 
Common. 
Ayy. — During May, throughout Devon and Cornwall. 
Note. — Mr. Mathew writes : — " The extreme abundance of the larvae of 
this species on Braunton Burrows, in the summers of 1858, '59, and '60, is 
worth mentioning. Every plant of Verbascwn Thapsus was completely 
covered with them ; the larvae in July varying in size from the juvenile just 
hatched, to the full-fed individual ready to burrow in the sand. I am posi- 
tive that had any one desired to have taken ten or twenty thousand, it 
might easily have been done." 
327. C. ScrophulariaB, Schiff. 
Noctua Scrophulari(e, Schiff. Wien. Verz. 312. 
Cucullia ScrophularicB, West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. i. 222, pi. 48, fig. 9. 
PhalcBna Verbasci, Don. Brit. Insect. 
Cucullia ScrophularicB, Staint. Man. i. 285. 
Jlare. 
In comparing a series of so-called ScrophularicB with similar 
variations of Verbasci, it soon becomes a hopeless task to separate 
them. There appears little doubt but that only one species is a 
native of the two western counties. Larva are found on the 
different food plants mentioned by authors, on which both species 
are supposed exclusively to feed, but these larvce graduate by 
variations into one another. 
The images found in most southern as well as in northern, 
cabinets, representing ScrophularicB, possess no more marked 
characteristics of distinctness than do those in collect' ons in wes- 
tern England ; ScrophularicB being in Mr. Doubleday's later edition 
of " S}Tionymic List of British Lepidoptera," is the strongest ar- 
gument that it is an indigenous insect. 
App. — Same time as Verbasci. 
Loc. — Plymouth ; — Devonport, J. S. D. ; Teignmouth, Dr. J. ; 
Exeter, E. P. ; Barnstaple, G. F. M. (the larvcB only). 
Larva on Wood Betony. — J. S.D. 
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