4 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



The Moth is fairly common throughout the British Isles. It 

 expands about an inch and a half. The larva is brown, varied 

 with rusty red, and has an elevation on the third segment, 

 which is bifid at the extremity and directed forwards ; and 

 there are five smaller pointed elevations on the back, com- 

 mencing on the sixth segment, in front of the last of which 

 is a dark quadrilateral spot. 



It feeds on bramble, and clings to the under surface of the 

 leaves. 



GENUS HABROSYNE. 



Habrosyne, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 272 (1822?). 

 Gonophora, Bruand, Me'm. Soc. d'^mul. Doubs. (2) i. p. 89 

 (1845) ) id. Ann. Soc. Ent. France (2) vii. p. 42 (1849). 



General characters of Thyatira t but the antennae are scarcely 

 ciliated, the palpi hairy, rather short, the last joint naked, and 

 the fore-wings with pale oblique lines, an accessory cell, and 

 with the sub-costal nervules well separated ; hind-wings with the 

 discoidal nervule and upper median nervule well separated at 

 their origin. The larvae are cylindrical and without elevations. 



THE BUFF ARCHES. HABROSYNE DERASA. 

 (Plate CXXVIL, Fig. I.) 



Noctua derasa, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.) i. (2) p. 851, 

 no. 158 (1767) ; Esper, Schmett. iv. (2) i, p. 449, Taf. 142, 

 fig. i (1791?); iv - ( 2 ) 2 > P- 54, Taf. 193, figs. 4-6 

 (1799?) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iv. fig. 66 (1799?). 



Thyatira derasa, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 165 

 (1825); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 47 (1829); 

 Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lecid. iv. pi. 54, figs, i-i b 

 (1891). 



