08 IIAUSTF.LI.ATA. LEPIDOPTEKA. 



Sp. 1. cloraiia, Alis anticis vh-idibus, cost.i albCi, posticis albidis. (Exp. Alar. 

 9—10^ lin. 



Ph. To. clorana. Liiwe. — Ph. viridana. Wilkes, pi. 5. — To. clorana. Steph. 

 Catal. ii. 169. No. 684.6. 



Anterior wings green, with the costa white ; cilia white or greenish : posterior 



wings and cilia shining white. 

 Caterpillar greenish, spotted with white, the sides spotted with brown : it 



feeds on the willow; pupa inclosed in a conical cocoon : the imago appears 



in June. 



Somewhat local, and not very common ; found generally in marshy 

 districts, as in Battersea-fields, near Woolwich, Plumstead, Erith, 

 &c., on willows and oziers. 



Gets^us CCLXXVI. — ToRTRTx Auctorum. 



Palpi short, subhorizontal, or depending, subparallel, clothed with rather long 

 divergent scales, the apical joint exposed, and slightly deflexed ; basal joint 

 short, reniform, second elongate, tumid, terminal short, obtuse: maxillw 

 almost rudimentary. Antennae short, simple, with a delicate pubescence 

 within in the males : head with a tuft of scales between the antennae : eyes 

 large, globose : thorax subovate, not crested : wings broad, anterior slightly 

 rounded at the shoulder and on the hinder margin, of plain uniform colours, 

 without any markings; posterior ample, ovate-triangular: body slender, 

 with a large tuft at the apex in the males ; obtuse in the females: legs short. 

 Larva elongate, attenuated, residing in a convoluted leaf, in which it changes 

 to pupa. 



These insects are of plain uniform colours, without fasciae, streaks 

 or borders, whence the name Aphelia applied to them by Hiibner; 

 they are generally green or yellow, of moderate size, and closely 

 resemble in external form and habit the genus Earis, from which, 

 however, their subhorizontal, or deflexed palpi, distinguish them, 

 without taking into consideration other characters, or the diversity of 

 their metamorphoses. 



Sp. 1. viridana. Alis anticis viridibus concoloribus, costa albidCt , posticis fuscescen- 

 iibus. (Exp. Alar. 7—13 lin.) 



Ph. To. viridana. Linne. — Donovan, iv. pi. 1 H. — To. viridana. Steph. Catal. ii. 

 169. No. 6846. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings light grass-green, the costa of the latter 

 slightly whitish: cilia also white, sometimes a little tinted with green; 

 posterior wings brownish : cilia whitish-ash. 



