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and yellow spots below them. On the fifth segment is a large 

 reddish-yellow wart-like elevation, and on the twelfth segment 

 another smaller one. That on the fifth segment has a white 

 spot on each side of it. There are reddish-yellow spots on the 

 spiracles. 



It feeds on various species of poplar and willow. 



The pupa is brown. 



The Scarce Chocolate-Tip. 



This Moth was inserted in the British list by the earlier 

 writers, but was lost sight of, and was consequently omitted 

 from our lists until a colony was discovered at Folkestone by 

 Dr. Knaggs in 1859. Subsequently the species was almost 

 exterminated in that locality by a great storm; but the insect 

 has been met with in one or two other localities on the coast 

 of Kent and Sussex, though very rarely. 



GENUS DANIMA. 

 Daiiima^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1052 

 (1855)- ;: .. 



This is a very stout-bodied genuS ; the abdomen extends far 

 beyond the hind-wings; the antennae are pectinated for half their 

 length in the male ; the wings are rather long and narrow, and 

 the tibi?e are armed with two long apical spurs. The larva 

 resembles that of a Sj>hinx, and the genus evidently forms 

 a connecting link between the Notodontidce and the true 

 Sphingidce. It is by no means improbable that it actually 

 belongs to the latter Family. 



