LARS. 20I 



species is the largest and most conspicuous of our Geometrcs^ 

 but the foreign genera shade off into the Ennoinidce. A synop- 

 sis of the Urapterydce was published by Dr. A. G. Butler in 

 vol. 17 of the "Journal of the Linnean Society of London." 



GENUS LARS. 

 Lars, Hiibner, Tentamen, p, 2 (1822 ?). 

 Urapteryx, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 80 (1S14); Guence, Spec. 



Gen. Lepid. Uran. et. Phal. i. p. 27 (1852). 

 Oiirapteryx, Leach, Edinb. Encycl. ix. p. 134 (181 5). 



The antennns are not pectinated, but are sometimes 

 pubescent in the males. The wings are white or yellow, with 

 transverse lines, and one or two sub-ocellated spots at the base 

 of the tail in the hind-wings. Several species are found in the 

 East Indies and in South America ; but they have all a strong 

 general resemblance to the European moth. 



THE SWALLOW-TAILED MOTH. LARS SAMEUCARIA. 



^Plate CXLVL, Fig. i.) 



Geometra sambucaria, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x), i. p. 519, 



no. 129 (1858); id. Faun. Suec. p. 322, no. 1222 (1761) ; 



id. Mus. Ludov. Ulr. p. 391 (1764); Esper, Schmett. v. 



p. 51, Taf. 8, figs. 1-8 (1794?); Hiibner, Eur, Schmett. 



V. fig. 28 (1797?). 

 Uraptoyx sambucaria, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 80, pi. 35, fig. 2 



(1814); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 175 



(1831); Curtis, Brit. Ent. xi. pi. 508 (1834); Kirby, Eur. 



Butterflies and Moths, p. 305, pi. 43, fig. 6 (1881). 

 Accena sambucaria, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vi. (r), p. 85 



(1827). 

 Ourapteryx sambucaria, Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. pi. 106, 



figs. I, I a (1897). 

 The Swallow-tailed Moth is common throughout the greater 

 part of Europe and Northern and Western Asia. It is one of 



