THE GENERA OF BRITISH MOTHS. 195 
PLATE LXII. 
(SUPPLEMENTAL) 
No, 1.—The Reed Leopard (Phragmatecia Arundinis). No. 6.—The Long-horned (Phiialoe.ra Quercana). 
No. 2.—The Plumed Prominent (Ptilophora plumigera) No. 7.—The Orange V-Moth (Spatalia bicolor). 
No, 2.—The Caterpillar of the Plumed Prominent. 2 
No. §&.—The Caterpillar of the Orange V-Moth. 
No, 4.—The Dusky Marbled Brown (Giuphisia crenata). 
No. 5.—The Figure-of Bight Moth (Diloba coruleocephuia). | No. 9.—The New Scarlet Tiger Moth (Hyperconpa Eeiu). 
No. 1. Phragmatecia arundinis (the Reed Leopard). This species, described at page 15, has been 
popularly named the Reed Leopard, in consequence of its general affinities with the Wood Leopard, the white 
wings of which are beautifully spotted with black, while its own wings are almost entirely without mark. 
The Caterpillar, according to Ochsenheimer, is yellowish, with the head and second segment brown. It feeds 
within the stems of the Common Reed in April, and the Moth appears in June. The antennex of the male are 
strongly bipectinated, as shown in the illustration, but those of the female are longer and only ciliated. The 
body of the female is of extraordinary length, greater perhaps in its relative proportion to the rest of the structure 
than in any other moth, native or exotic. ‘The body of the male, as represented in our plate, is perhaps rather 
too long for the male, but not sufficiently so to represent that of the female. When my first drawing of this 
species was made, in 1845, from a fragment of a specimen found by Mr. H. Doubleday floating on a pond in 
Epping Forest, there was not a single specimen in the collection in the British Museum, and many thought there 
was not sufficient authority for considering the species to be British. But there are now nearly a score of fine 
specimens in the national collection, the capture of which has been well authenticated. It is in fact not of 
extreme rarity in some seasons in marshy districts, and was once abundant at Whittlesea Mere, Lincoln. 
No. 2. Plilophora plumigera (the Plumed Prominent). This singular species, so remarkable on account 
of the singular antenna of the male, from which it takes both its popular and scientific name, was not illus- 
trated with a figure, for want of a good specimen, when the description at page 19 was published. The present 
figure (No. 2) has been prepared to supply that omission, as also No. 8, the Caterpillar. 
No. 4. Gluphisia crenata (the Dusky Marbled Brown). This illustration has also been introduced here to 
supply the omission in Plate V. In the description of this Moth at page 19, the rarity of this species is not 
alluded to. It is, however, very scarce, and has only been taken at Epping, and at Halton in Buckinghamshire. 
No. 5. Diloba cwerulcocephala (the Figure-of-Kight Moth). The description of this Moth at page 19 is 
unaceompanied by a figure, which the present illustration will supply. It is a common species, and very generally 
distributed. 
No. 6. Phibalocera Quercana (the Long-horned). This figure is intended to illustrate the description of 
the genus Phibalocera at page 173. 
No. 7. Spatatia bicolora (the Orange V-Moth). 1 have called this handsome new species “‘the Orange V-Moth’ 
