One example of this form of the species, which is a variable one, was taken by the Rev. O. Pickard, Cambridge, in
September, 1884. He found it sitting on a door-jamb in his garden at Bloxworth, Dorset.
The specimen shown on Plate [36], Fig. 9, hails from Mogador.
Abroad, the range of the species includes southern Europe, Asia Minor, Egypt, North-West Africa, Madeira, and the Canaries.
The Buttoned Snout (Hypena rostralis).
Two forms of this species are shown on Plate [35]. The typical one is represented by Fig. 12, and Fig. 11 shows ab. palpalis, Tutt (?), Fabr. and Stephens. The front margin of the fore wings is often streaked with a pale colour, and in ab. radiatalis, Hübner (134), which is otherwise similar to the last-named form, this is pale or ochreous brown. A uniform pale greyish form has been named ab. unicolor, Tutt, and one almost entirely ochreous or greyish-ochreous, ab. ochrea, Tutt.
The caterpillar is green, with blackish dots; a darker line along the middle of the back, and white lines along the sides; head, yellowish green dotted with black. It feeds on hop (Humulus lupulus) in June and early July, and in the daytime may be found on the undersides of the leaves. (Plate [37], Fig. 2; after Hofmann.) The moth is out in August and September, and after hibernation reappears in the spring, and may be met with until June. It may be obtained at sugar, or at ivy bloom. Given the food plant, the species will probably be found in most of the counties of England from Worcester southwards, but its occurrence northwards appears to have been very rarely noted.
The range abroad extends to East Siberia.
The White-line Snout (Hypenodes tænialis (albistrigalis)).
This species, and also the two immediately following, are so small in size, and so obscure in appearance, that they are