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| 2 Pl. 34. |
| 1. | Small Fanfoot: caterpillar. |
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| 3. | Clay Fan-foot: caterpillar. |
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| 2 Pl. 35. |
| 1, 2. | Fan-foot. | 3. | Small Fan-foot. | 4. | Lesser Belle. |
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| 5. | Dotted Fan-foot. | 6. | Clay Fan-foot. | 7. | Common Fan-foot. |
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| 8, 9. | Beautiful Snout. | 10. | The Snout. | 11, 12. | Buttoned Snout. |
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The Snout (Hypena proboscidalis).
This species (Plate [35], Fig. 10) is more generally distributed and common than any other of the group. Wherever nettles grow in quantity there we may expect to find this moth in its season, that is, in June and July. In favourable years there is sometimes a second flight, on a small scale, in the autumn; this was the case in 1905.
The caterpillar is green, with raised dots, from each of which a brownish hair arises; the line along the middle of the back is dark, and those along the sides are yellowish; the head is ochreous brown. It feeds on nettles in May and June. (Plate [37], Fig. 3; after Hofmann.)
In Amurland, and some other parts of eastern Asia, the species is represented by the brown-sprinkled yellowish form, var. deleta, Staudinger.
The Bloxworth Snout (Hypena obsitalis).
The fore wings of this species are brown, crossed by a number of darker lines and a thicker angulated line beyond the middle; the latter is outwardly edged with pale brown, chiefly towards the costa; some white dots on the veins represent the submarginal line, and below the tips of the wings there are some black streaks.