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brightly coloured, but with no spot or streak in the cells. The 

 larva is short, broad, and pubescent, with long filaments curv- 

 ing backwards on the eighth segment ; it feeds on shrubs. 

 The pupa is short, much thickened in the middle, and 

 enclosed in a very loose cocoon. 



THE LILAC BEAUTY. PHAL.ENA SYRINGARL\. 



Geometra syringaria, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i. p. 520, 

 no. 132 (1758); Esper, Schmett. v. p. 62, Taf. 11, figs. 3-7 

 (^795 ?) ; Hlibner, Eur. Schmett. v. fig. 29 (1797?). 



Ennomos syri?igaria, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vi. (i), p. 52 

 (1827). 



Pericallia syringaria, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 171 

 (1831); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 301, pi. 49, 

 figs. 2-2 b (1881) ; Buckler, Larvse of Brit. Lepid. vii. 

 pi. 107, figs. 3-3 b (1897). 



The Lilac Beauty. 



This species inhabits most parts of Northern and Central 

 Europe and Northern Asia. It expands from an inch and a 

 half to an inch and three-quarters. 



The fore-wings have a pale violet triangular spot on the costa 

 close to the base, from which a transverse line of the same 

 colour runs towards the inner margin. On this line are two 

 more or less distinct black points on the costa. Towards the 

 apex of the wings is an olive-green spot bordered with white 



