4 Lloyd's natural history. 



The Moth is fairly common throughout the British Isles. It 

 expands about an inch and a half. The larva is brown, varied 

 with rusty red, and has an elevation on the third segment, 

 which is bifid at the extremity and directed forwards ; and 

 there are five smaller pointed elevations on the back, com- 

 mencing on the sixth segment, in front of the last of which 

 is a dark quadrilateral spot. 



It feeds on bramble, and clings to the under surface of the 

 leaves. 



GENUS HABROSYNE. 



Habrosyne, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 272 (1822?). 

 Gonophora, Bruand, M^m. Soc. d'limul. Doubs. (2) i. p. 89 

 (1845) J ^^- Ann. Soc. Ent. France (2) vii. p. 42 (1849). 



General characters of Thyatira, but the antennae are scarcely 

 ciliated, the palpi hairy, rather short, the last joint naked, and 

 the fore-wings with pale oblique lines, an accessory cell, and 

 with the sub-costal nervules well separated ; hind-wings with the 

 discoidal nervule and upper median nervule well separated at 

 their origin. The larvae are cylindrical and without elevations. 



THE BUFF ARCHES. HABROSYNE DERASA. 

 {Plate CXXVIL, Fig. I.) 



Nodua derasa, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.) i. (2) p. 851, 

 no. 158 (1767) ; Esper, Schmett. iv. (2) i, p. 449, Taf. 142, 

 fig. I (1791?); iv. (2) 2, p. 54, Taf. 193, figs. 4-6 

 (1799?) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iv. fig. 66 (1799?). 



Thyatira derasa, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 165 

 (1825); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 47 (1829); 

 Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lecid. iv. pi. 54, figs, i-i b 

 (1891). 



