262 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



bifid above. Its body is yellowish-green, darker on the 

 sides, with a bluish dorsal line and three fine whitish lateral 

 ones, the two lowest being above the legs, and close together. 



The Feathered Prominent. 



It feeds on maple, beech, and sallow. 

 The pupa is dark brown, and is enclosed in an oval earthen 

 cocoon. 



GENUS NOTODONTA. 



Notodonta, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 45 (1810); 



Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 146 (1822 ?); Stephens, 



111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 22 (1828); Curtis, Brit. Ent. 



xiv. pi. 739 (1839); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. 



P- 995 (1855). 

 Peridea, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 32 (1828). 



In Notodonta the antennae are slightly pectinated to the tips. 

 In the males, the body is stout, pubescent, and rather long, ex- 

 tending beyond the hind- wings; the fore-wings are long, mode- 

 rately broad, with the hind margin oblique and rounded, and a 

 very conspicuous tooth on the inner margin. The hind tibiae 

 are armed with four long spurs. The larva is naked, with 

 humps on the back, and the pupa is subterranean. There 



