Archive image from page 261 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( NOTODONTINA [aplasta mosing with 12. Hindwings : 6 and 7 stalked, 8 approximated to cell towards base, diverging from middle. Includes only the one European species. It is a somewhat isolated type, of uncertain affinity. 1. A. ononaria, Fuesl. 22-27 mm. Head brownish-ochreous. Forewings light ochreous, strigulated with ferruginous; second line formed by a cloudy darker suffusion ; subterminal indis- tinctly pale; terminal band somewhat darker. Hindwings as for
Archive image from page 261 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( NOTODONTINA [aplasta mosing with 12. Hindwings : 6 and 7 stalked, 8 approximated to cell towards base, diverging from middle. Includes only the one European species. It is a somewhat isolated type, of uncertain affinity. 1. A. ononaria, Fuesl. 22-27 mm. Head brownish-ochreous. Forewings light ochreous, strigulated with ferruginous; second line formed by a cloudy darker suffusion ; subterminal indis- tinctly pale; terminal band somewhat darker. Hindwings as forewings, but markings hardly indicated. Kent, apparently a casual only; WC. and S. Europe, Asia Minor, Syria; 5, 6. Larva stout, clothed with stiff short down; dull green, dorsal line darker, spiracular obscurely lighter : on Ononis spinosa ; 9-4. 3. Erannis, HI. Face with appressed scales. Tongue obsolete. Antennae in cJ serrate, ciliated with very long fascicles. Palpi very short, rough-scaled. Thorax somewhat hairy beneath. Femora glabrous. Forewings: 11 sometimes anasto- mosing with 12 or 10. Hindwings: 6 and 7 stalked, 8 anastomosing with cell to beyond middle. ? apterous, with large anal tuft. A very small genus, confined to the European region and North America. Larva with rudimentary prolegs on 9. 1. E. aescularia, Schiff. 29-33 mm. Head brownish. Forewings brown or brownish-ochreous, sprin- kled with blackish ; first and second Nouration of Erannis aescularia. ymes serrate, whitish, internally margined with blackish-fuscous marks in serrations; a dark fuscous linear discal mark, and oblique apical streak. Hind- wings pale whitish-fuscous; a dark fuscous discal dot; second line faintly whitish, curved. Britain to Perth, Ireland, common (unfrequent in Scotland); (J. Europe; 3, 4. Larva yellowish-green; dorsal line dark green, yellow-edged; subdorsal, lateral, and subspiracular yellowish : on oak, elm, etc. ; 5, 6. The ? moth strews hairs from the anal tuft over her eggs.
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