LEPLDOPTEKA. 



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may be found during the late summer and early autumn feeding 

 on poplars and willows; and of the caterpillar of Stauropus 



Fig. 246. Dicranura verbasci. 



y the Lobster-moth (Fig. 247), rare in this country, whose 



Fig. 247. Larva of the Lobster-moth ( Stauropus fagi)- 



appearance is strange indeed. The moths, on the contrary, hare 

 nothing about them remarkable. 



Fig. 248. Noctua tegamon. 



The Noctuina are a group of Lepidoptera of middling size, and 



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