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margin, are rusty-brown, clouded with ochre-yellow, with two 

 dark brown oblique zig-zag lines running obliquely from the 

 costa to the inner margin, and blackish nervures, dotted on the 

 hind margin with white or yellow. The hind-wings are yellow, 

 with a dark hind margin, and occasionally a lighter transverse 

 band, and a blue-black dash at the anal angle divided by a pale 

 yellow streak- 



Larva of the Coxcomb Prominent. 



The larva is green, or sometimes reddish, with the back 

 whitish, and a yellow spiracular line, edged above with violet. 

 The spiracles are black, and there is a red spot behind each. 

 When at rest it keeps the head and second segment thrown 

 back, and the tail erect also. 



The pupa is dark reddish-brown, tapering to the extremity, 

 which ends in a straight spine. It is enclosed in a cocoon 

 made of fine earth. 



This is a common species in England ; the next is a rarity 

 with us. 



THE MAPLE PROMINENT. LOPHOPTERYX CUCULLINA. 



Bombyx cucullina^ Denis & Schiffermuller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien. p. 311, no. 8 (1776); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii. 



fig. 20 (1800?) ; Godart, Lepid. France, iv. p. 190, pi. 18, 



fig. 3 (1822). 



Bombyx cuculla, Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 364, Taf. 71, fig. i (1786). 

 Noiodonta cucullina^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 55 



(1810). 



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