Ochsenheinier's Genoa of the Lepidoptera of Europe. 331 

 Species. Icon. 



2.Geom.Pa/ji7/o?2ana, Linn.*Hubn. Geom. tab. 2. f. 6.(fcem.) 



3. — Viridata, Linn Hlibn. Geom. tab. 2. f. 11. (mas.) 



4-. — JEruginaria, Hubn....FIubn. Geom. tab. 9. f. 46. (mas.) 



5. — Piitataria, Linn Hlibn. Geom. tab. 2. f. 10. (I'cem.) 



6. — Biipleuraria, Hlibn.... Hiibn. Geom. tab. 2. f. S. (mas.) 



7. — JEstivaria^ Hiibn Hlibn. Geom. tab. 2. f. 9 (foem ) 



Fam. B. 

 S.Geom. Ct/thisaria, HLibn..Hubn. Geom. tab. 1. f. 2. (mas.) 



9. — Bajtdaiia, Hlibn Hlibn. Geom. tab. 1. f. 3. (mas.) 



10. — Smaragdaria, Fab Hiibn. Geom. tab. l.f. ]. (foem.) 



(11. — Agrestaria, Duponch.Duponch. Lep. de Fr. vii. pi. IS'^* 



f. 4.) (foem.) 



Genus 92. ASPILATES, Ochs., TreitscJt. 



(AspiLATEs, Phasiane, Duponchel. 

 AspiLATES, Phibalapteryx, Lozogramma, Stephens.) 



Wijigs, anterior with three abnost straight, transverse, diago- 

 nal bands, dividing the area into as many nearly equal com- 

 partments : posterior with faint traces of the outer bands. 



Larva, not tubercular, except two small elevations on the 

 last segment, somewhat attenuated anteriorly. — Metamor- 

 phosis above ground. 



anterior margin of the first segment with one or two points inclined to- 

 wards the \\c?^A.— Metamorphosis in a blight web amongst leaves." — Lep. 

 de Fran. torn. vii. part. ii. p. 233. 



M. Duponchel adds that these insects are at once distinguished by their 

 delicate green colour and the two white bands on the wings, which how- 

 ever are only secondary characters. It was the peculiar form of the larva; 

 that determined him to create the genus Hemithea, for those species 

 which lie places in it, and which he arranges in three groups: ]. Lower 



wings angular; fringe of two .ilternating colours ; biiplevraria, ccstivaria. 



2. Lower wings angular, fringe of one colour; j^utataria, <eruginaria, viri- 

 claria, vermtria.—[i. Lower wings rounded ; smaragdaria, getiislaria, coro- 

 n'dlaria, agrestaria. 



'J"he following caution of M. Duponchel may be useful to young col- 

 lectors:— "He careful to set all tl;e species of this genus brfor?' thci/ 

 become rigid; for their fine green colour becomes white or yellowish by 

 damping." 



• Ge'imetra, Duponch.— " Antenna: pectinated in the males, simple in 

 the females. — Tliornx narrow, slightlv velvety. — Lower iving.i only, slightly 

 denticulated.— yWy;i straight, extending beyond the forehead; "last joint 

 naked, very distinct.— yl/«.ti//rf not proinineiit.— /,«;m short, cylindrical; 

 /lead rounded ; the middle segments tubercular.— iUc/«/M<)//j//f,ii-.v in a trans- 

 jiarent cocoon, amongst leaves."— Duponch. Lep.de Fran. lorn. vii. jjarl. ii. 



p. ~.yj. 



The species papillionarin and bajidaria arc the only ones wiiich M. Du- 

 ponchel includes in tliis genus. 



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