104 HAUSTELLATA. — LEl'IDOPTERA, 



but greener, and the spots more distinct and whiter, more or less edged 

 with black, and emarginate externally. 



Var. /3. The wings above of a pale greenish ochraceous ; the macvdations as 

 usual. 



The peculiar character possessed by the male of this species, and which is men- 

 tioned by Ochsenheimer, but by no EngUsh writer, admirably identifies it 

 with the Pa. Comma of Linne, who, in his description of the anterior wings, 

 says, " Litura nigra linearis margine nudd subargenteCi in medio pagine 

 superioris." 



Caterpillar dirty green with a dorsal and lateral row of black dots, mixed with 

 red : head black, with a white collar : — it feeds on the Coronilla varia, according 

 to the authors of the ^Feiner Verzeichnis. 



A local species occurring in plenty on Riddlesdown near Croy- 

 don, and on the chalky downs of Sussex, especially near Lewes. 

 It used formerly to be taken on Hanwell-common, Middlesex, but 

 I have not heard of any recent captures near that place : it appears 

 towards the end of August. " Discovered in considerable abun- 

 dance towards the middle of August, 1825, on the Devil's Ditch, 

 between the running gap and the turnpike ; the specimens remark- 

 ably large and fine."" — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Old Sarum, Wilts, July, 

 1826."— J. C. Dale, Esq. 



The second division of the Lepidoptera consists of the 



Crepuscularia, Latreille : 



WTiich are characterised by having the antennae various, but gradually produced 

 into a prismatic or fusiform club, with the apex frequently terminating in a 

 fascicle of hairs : wings, when at rest, horizontal or a little inclined ; the pos- 

 terior with a rigid setiform process at the base, passing through a hook be- 

 neath and retaining the anterior; they are frequently transparent; the an- 

 terior larger than the posterior, and generally much elongated : body cyUndric 

 or conical, sometimes furnished with a large tuft of scales or hair at the apex. 

 The larvae have sixteen legs, six pectoral, eight abdominal, and two anal ; the 

 last segment is frequently armed with a homy process; and the pupae are 

 smooth, sometimes furnished with spines, either buried in the earth or foUi- 

 culated. The perfect insects of the typical family generally fly in the evening 

 or at day-break, the others in the morning and afternoon, and live for a short 

 period only. 



This division corresponds with the genus Sphinx of Linne and 

 Lis followers ; but it may be readily and most advantageously sepa- 

 rated into the following families by the subjoined characters : 



{v.vo,.«c. ti J fanoimberbi: . . 2. Sphingid.'e. 



breves: Abdomen \ ■, ■> ^ „ c 



(anobarbato: . . 3. Sesiid.^. 



elonjratie- Alw j s*pissime hyalinre : . 4. tEgeriid^e. 



° ( squamis tccta' : . . 1. Zyg^nid^. 



