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and yellow spots below them. On the fifth segment is a large 

 reddish-yellow wart-like elevation, and on the twelfth segment 

 another smaller one. That on the fifth segment has a white 

 spot on each side of it. There are reddish-yellow spots on the 

 spiracles. 



It feeds on various species of poplar and willow. 



The pupa is brown. 



The Scarce Chocolate-Tip. 



This Moth was inserted in the British list by the earlier 

 writers, but was lost sight of, and was consequently omitted 

 from our lists until a colony was discovered at Folkestone by 

 Dr. Knaggs in 1859. Subsequently the species was almost 

 exterminated in that locality by a great storm ; but the insect 

 has been met with in one or two other localities on the coast 

 of Kent and Sussex, though very rarely. 



GENUS DANIMA. 

 Danima, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1052 



This is a very stout-bodied genus ; the abdomen extends far 

 beyond the hind-wings; the antennae are pectinated for half their 

 length in the male ; the wings are rather long and narrow, and 

 the tibiae are armed with two long apical spurs. The larva 

 resembles that of a Sphinx, and the genus evidently forms 

 a connecting link between the Notodontida and the true 

 Sphingida. It is by no means improbable that it actually 

 belongs to the latter Family. 



