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NOTODONTINA 



[nemoria 



England, Forfar, W. Ireland, common ; C. and S. Europe, 

 Asia Minor; 6, 7. Larva brown, 5-10 sometimes yellowish or 



flesh-colour ; 2-5 suffused with pale 

 ) purplish, with brown dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and spiracular lines; 6-9 

 with pale purplish or whitish V- 

 shaped marks ; head brown : on 

 birch, blackthorn, etc. ; 8-5. 



2. N. viridata, L. 22-24 mm. 

 Face I'ed -brown, fillet white, crown 

 light green. Antennae in $ fili- 

 form. Forewings light green ; costal 

 edge whitish - ochreous ; first line 

 faint, curved ; second nearly straight, 

 whitish ; cilia white, basal half pale 

 greenish. Hindwings as forewings, 

 but first line absent; termen very 

 obtusely angulated. 



England, E. Ireland, local ; 

 Europe, WC. and N. Asia ; 5, 6. Larva pale green, with 

 purplish dorsal sometimes coniiected marks ; subdorsal line 

 whitish ; lateral ridge pale yellow ; head purplish : on Ruhus, 



Neuratioii of Nemoria strigaia. 



hawthorn, etc. ; 7-9. 



EUCHLORIS, Hh. 



Antennae in S bipectinated, towards apex simple. Palpi 

 shortly rough-scaled. Forewings: 10 out of 9, 11 sometimes 

 anastomosing with 12 or 10. Hindwings : 3 and 4 sometimes 

 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 very shortly anastomosing with cell 

 near base, thence rapidly diverging. 



An extensive genus, principally characteristic of the Indo- 

 Malayan, Australian, and African regions ; but there are also 

 a certain number of species in Europe and North America. 

 The neural variations noted sometimes occur within the same 

 species. 



1. Forewings with brown tornal blotch . \. pustulata. 



,, without brown blotch . . .2. 



2. Face green ... 2. smaragdaria. 



,, not green . . . . .3. 



3. Face dull red . . , .3. vemaria. 



,, yellow-ochreuus . . .4. lactearia. 



1. E. pustulata, llufn. (bajularia, SchifF.) 27-30 mm. Head 



white, collar green. Forewings green ; costal edge white ; first 



