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In Ghiphisia, the antennae of the male are pectinated to 

 the tip, the body is moderately stout and hairy, and does not 

 extend beyond the hind-wings, the wings are long, and the costa 

 of the fore-wings is nearly straight, the apex moderately pointed, 

 and the hind margin obliquely rounded ; the legs are pilose, 

 and the hind tibiae are armed with a pair of short apical spurs ; 

 the larva is smooth, without protuberances. 



The only European species is very rare in England. Several 

 species of this genus are recorded as occurring in the United 

 States. 



THE DUSKY MARBLED BROWN. GLUPHISIA CRENATA. 



Bombyx crenata, Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 245, Taf. 47, figs. 3, 4 

 (1785); Godart, Lepid. France, iv. p. 214, pi. 20, fig. 4 



(1822). 



Bombyx rurea, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 164, no. 67 (1787). 

 Bombyx crenosa, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii. fig. 12 (1800). 

 Notodonta crenosa^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 79 



(1810); Herrich-Schaffer, Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 117, no. 7, 



fig. 124 (1846). 

 Gluphisia crenata^ Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 140 



(1880) ; Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 80, pi. 34, 



fig. 6 (1887); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. iii. p. 152, pi. 112, 



figs, i, itf, b (1895). 



This Moth is found in many parts of Europe. 



It expands about i^ inch. 



The fore-wings are broad, and scarcely dentated on the inner 

 margin ; they are ashy-grey varied with white and yellowish- 

 brown. Two blackish transverse lines, edged with whitish on the 

 sides remote from one another, bound the paler central area, in 

 which is a faint yellowish lunule. Between the outer of these 

 and the hind margin runs a third line, edged with white on the 

 inner side. The space between these lines is dark ashy-grey. 



