204 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



It is deep sulphur-yellow, with two reddish-brown spots on 

 the costa of the fore- wings towards the base ; a third near the 

 middle, produced internally, and having a white mark in the 

 centre ; and a rather large one at the apex. Beyond the 

 middle of the wings is a transverse row of faint dusky marks, 

 and two or three others near the base. The hind-wings have 

 a reddish-brown central spot, generally with a white dot in the 

 middle, and several dusky marks. The fringes are spotted 

 with reddish-brown. 



The larva feeds on hawthorn, sloe, apple, bramble, &c. It 

 is long and cylindrical, pale brown, with a bluish spot on each 

 side of the neck, and the spiracles on the sixth segment tinged 

 with red. On the back of the sixth segment is a bifid pro- 

 tuberance. The pupa is dark brown. 



The Moth is found from April to October or November, 

 there being a succession of broods throughout the fine season 

 of the year. 



GENUS ANGERONA. 



Angerona, Duponchel, Lepid. France, vii. (2), p. 180 (1829); 

 Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. i. p. 114 (1852). 



The antennae are pectinated and ciliated in the male, the 

 head small, the palpi short and pointed, and the legs short, the 

 hind tibiae fusiform, with short spurs, the fore-wings entire, 

 and the hind-wings slightly scolloped. The larva is very long, 

 and the pupa is enclosed in a slight cocoon between leaves. 



THE ORANGE MOTH. ANGERONA PRUNARIA. 



(Plate CXLVL, Fig. 3.) 



Geometra prunaria^ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) p. 520, no. 133 

 (1758); Esper, Schmett. v. p. 9i,Taf. 17, figs. 1-7 (1794?); 

 Knoch, Beitr. Ins. ii. pp. 7, 133, Taf. i, fig. 3, Taf. 7 

 (1782); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. figs. 122, 123 (1800). 



