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lines and a yellow lateral line, generally dotted with red, 

 which runs above the legs. The head is flattened, and is kept 

 extended when the creature is at rest. It feeds on willows, 



The Pale Prominent. 



poplars, lime {Tilia europcea), &c. The pupa is reddish-brown, 

 and the cocoon is formed of loose earth and greyish silk. 

 The Moth is not very scarce in England. 



GENUS PTILOPHORA. 



Ptilophora, Stephens, III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 29 (1828); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1097 (1855). 

 This is another very distinct genus, though with but little 

 resemblance to the last, except in the very broadly pectinated 

 antennce of the male ; those of the female are simple. The 

 body is pilose, and slightly tufted at the extremity in the male ; 

 the abdomen extends somewhat beyond the hind-wings. The 

 fore-wings are long, broad, and rather pointed at the tips ; and 

 the hind margin is slightly denticulated. The wings are 

 slightly transparent ; the legs are short and downy, and the 

 hind tibice are armed with two small apical spurs. The 

 greatest contrast which this genus present to Pterostoma is in 

 its palpi. In Pterostoma these organs are of quite unusual 

 length for one of the Notodontidce^ in which Family they are 



