266 LINNJEUS* GLYPHIPTERYX. 



wings are dusky, the latter glossed with steel-blue ; 

 antennae black, whitish at the apex. 



Occasionally found in some plenty," but by no 

 means general. It has been most frequently found 

 near London, probably because that neighbourhood 

 has been more carefully examined than most other 

 places. 



WHITE-PLUMED MOTH. 



Pterophoms Pentadactylus. 

 PLATE XXX. Fig. 3. 



Phal. Alucita. Pentadactyla, Linn. ; Don. iv. PI. 110 The 



Large White Plume, Haworth Plumed Moth, Harris* 



Aurel. PI. 1 5 fig. o q Pterophorus Pentadactylus, Latr., 



Steph. 



THE last section of the Nocturnal Lepidoptera is 

 chiefly composed of such moths as present the very 

 remarkable peculiarity of having their wings divided 

 from near the base to the apex into separate plume- 

 lets or feathers; thus bearing much resemblance 

 to the wings of birds. Their bodies are long and 

 slender, the legs likewise of great length and deli- 

 cacy, whence they are not unlike some kinds of 

 crane-flies, and were in fact from that circumstance 

 designated by De Geer, phalcenoB- tipulce. In Pte- 

 rophorus the anterior wings are variously divided 

 in different species into from two to six branches, 

 but the posterior pair are always trifid. The larvae, 



