THE KENTISH GLORY. J95 



to. Before its first change of skin it is entirely green, 

 but when mature the back is of a pale green, and 

 the under side minutely sprinkled with black, the 

 sides ornamented with oblique streaks of a whitish 

 or yellow colour. It feeds on a variety of our com- 

 mon forest trees, and generally appears on the wing 

 in June and July. It must he ranked among the 

 rarer of our British moths having been found chiefly 

 in the south of England, and seldom in considerable 

 numbers. Darenth Wood, Coombe Wood, and 

 Ashdown Forest, in Sussex, are the localities which 

 have afforded the greatest numher of specimens. 

 The male flies during the day, and with such rapi- 

 dity that he is captured with difficulty. 



EMPEROR-MOTH. 



Saturnia Pavoma- minor. 

 PLATE XVII. Fig. 1. 



Phalaena Pavonia-minor, Linn. Phal. Bom. Pavonia, Donovan^ 



viii. PI. 1, $ PL 254$ Emperor-moth, Wilkes, xvi. PL 32 



Larva, 33 Imago ; Htfrris* Aurel. Saturnia Pavonia-mmor, 

 Shrank, Steph. 



THE genus Saturnia may be briefly characterized 

 by the absence of palpi and a suctorial trunk, and 

 by the structure of the antennae, which, in the male, 

 bear two long ramifications on each side of the 

 joints, while in the female there is only a simple 



