

PHLOGOPHORA. 67 



The pupa is slender, and of a brown colour. The moth 

 appears in September and October. 



GENUS PHLOGOPHORA. 



Trigonophorci) pt. Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 217 



(1822?). 

 Phlogophora, pt. Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (i), p. 369 



(1825); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 83 (1829); 



Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. p. 62 (1852). 

 Solenoptera, Duponchel, Cat. Lepid. d'Europe, p. 134 (1844), 



nom. prceocc. 

 Brotolomia, Lederer, Noct. Eur. p. 115 (1857). 



Palpi rather large, ascending, the third joint small, but 

 distinct. Antennae ciliated, and in the male, sub-dentate. 

 Thorax rather stout, with a short, pointed crest in front and a 

 larger one behind, which is bifid at the extremity ; abdomen 

 rather short, much more slender than the thorax, with rows of 

 small tufts on the back and sides, and a larger one at the 

 extremity. Fore- wings rather long, the tip rounded off, and 

 the hind margin oblique and excavated ; hind-wings slightly 

 indented. Wings folded round the body in repose. 



The naked green larva feeds on a variety of plants, and the 

 pupa is found in the ground. 



There is curious confusion about the title of this genus, 

 which was originally used in rather an extended sense, the 

 names Trigonophora and Phlogophora being originally 

 synonymous. Stephens selected Noctua meticulosa, Linn., as 

 the type of Phlogophora, and this must stand. Duponchel, 

 however, in 1844, proposed a new and inadmissable name for 

 N. meticulosa, and wrongly restricted Phlogophora to Noctua 

 lucipara (Linn.) (already separated under the generic name of 

 by Stephens), and N. empyrea, Hiibner. Finally 



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