274 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Lophopteryx cuculla, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 27 



(1828). 

 Lophopteryx cucullina, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 



139 (1880); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 164, pi. 



35, fig. 4 (1887); Barrett, Lepid. Biit. Isl. iii. p 142, 



pi. no, figs. 2, 2(r, b (1895). 



The Maple Prominent. 



This European species expands about i ^ inch. 



The fore-wings are rusty-brown, with the costa pale ochre- 

 yellow, and the hind margin whitish. There are several fine 

 dark zig-zag lines. The lower part of the hind margin is white, 

 divided by a dark brown nervure. The fringes are white, che- 

 quered with rusty- brown. 



The hind-wings are yellowish-brown with an indistinct band, 

 a rusty-brown spot at the anal angle divided by a yellowish 

 line, and light grey fringes faintly chequered with darker. 



Larva of the ^laple Prominent. 



The young larva is green, and slightly hairy, with a rounded 

 reddish hump on the twelfth segment, bifid at the top. When 

 full grown it is green or pale reddish, with a heart-shaped green 



