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Speckled Yellow, the Orange Moth, the Light Emerald, 

 Barred Red, Lilac Beauty, and the various Thorns. 

 We have 21 British species. 



3. AMPHLDASID^E. Imago with the antennae of the 

 male plumose, or pectinated ; the thorax generally 

 woolly ; the abdomen almost always stout ; wings of the 

 male ample ; the female either wingless, or with rudi- 

 mentary, or else with fully developed wings. Larva 

 with 10 legs, elongate, smooth, not attenuated in front. 



This family includes the Oak Beauty and Peppered 

 Moths, with Phigalia pilosaria, Biston hirtaria, and the 

 species of Nyssia. We have only 6 British species. 



4. BOARMID^:. Imago with the antennas of the male 

 generally pectinated or ciliated, but never plumose ; 

 abdomen of the male long, and often slender ; wings 

 generally ample, often dentate, but never angulated. 

 Larva with 10 legs, only humped on the sixth and twelfth 

 segments. 



This family includes the Waved Umbre, the Mottled 

 and Willow Beauties, the Annulets, and the various 

 species of Cleora and Tephrosia. We have 21 British 

 species. 



5. BOLETOBIDJS. Imago with the antennae of the 

 male pectinated ; the wings ample, concolorous, slightly 

 dentate. Larva not humped, but rather bristly ; feeding 

 on lichens and fungi. 



We have only 1 species, the rare Boletobia fuliyi- 

 n aria. 



6. GEOMETRID^E. Imago with the antennae of the 

 male often pectinated, the tip generally simple ; the 

 abdomen sometimes crested ; the wings are green, gene- 

 rally entire, rounded or angular. Larva rather elon- 

 gate, stiff, often rough ; the head generally bifid, and 



