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down the back ; the tips of the anal points are 

 link. It feeds on the common sallow (Salix 

 and is full-fed about the middle of 

 ?ptember, when it spins a slight oval cocoon 

 long the fallen leaves. The CHRYSALIS is 

 dort, chesnut-brown, and shining ; it remains 



oon throughout the winter. 

 The MOTH appears on the wing in May and 

 lune, and has been found in some of our 

 English counties, both northern and southern, 

 it I have not heard of its occurrence in 

 Scotland ; Mr. Birchall records it from Ireland 

 on the authority of Dr. Bull, but no locality 

 is given. (The scientific name is Lobopliora 

 tata.] 



30.5. The Seraphim (Lobopltora Jicxaptcrala). 



305. THE SERAPHIM. The fore wings are 

 ig, broad, ample, and of a pale gray colour, 

 rith a slight tinge of ochreous in some speci- 

 ?ns ; they have a number of transverse 

 aoky markings, some of which form linear 

 while others are too irregular to de- 

 ribe ; the extreme base of the wing is gray, 

 len follows a short and narrow curved smoky 

 r, both margins of which are darker, then a 

 le elbowed bar, then a broader smoky bar, 

 aen a waved pale line, then an indistinct 

 iouble smoky line, then a pale transverse 

 space, which contains a small linear black dis- 

 coidal spot ; and beyond this the tints and 

 markings are confused and broken, and mixed 

 and interspersed with black arrow-heads 

 placed transversely : the hind wings are small 

 and rounded ; in the male each of them has 

 an oblong lobe at the base, extending nearly 

 half the length of the wing, and delicately 

 fringed at the margin, so as to have the ap- 

 pearance of a real wing ; both the hind wings 

 and their lobes are almost snowy-white, but the 



wings have a slender black line on the margin 

 itself, and an obscure series of dots just 

 within the margin. 



" CATERPILLAR, beautiful green; a sulphur 

 line on each side, and two sulphur points 

 project from the anal segment ; head with two 

 yellow points (Treitschke). On sallow and 

 aspen, June." Staintorfs Manual, ii. 94. 



"Although this species is the commonest 

 of the genus, its caterpillar is not veiy clearly 

 know ; Lyonet has given a very clumsy 

 figure of it, and Treitschke a very brief descrip- 

 tion. The first-named of these authors does 

 not mention its food-plant, the second at first 

 makes it feed on beech, and afterwards on 

 sallow and poplar." Guenee, Uran. et PhaL, 

 ii. 368. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in June, and 

 occurs in many of our English counties, but I 

 do no recollect seeing it recorded from Scot- 

 land or Ireland. (The scientific name is 

 LobopJiora Jtexapterata.^ 



Obs. I regret my inability to describe the 

 caterpillar of this common moth, but shall be 

 much gratified if the brief extracts given 

 above afford a clue to its discovery. 



306. The Yellow-barred Brindle (Loboplora viretata). 



306. THE YELLOW-BAKRED BRINDLE. The 

 fore wings are ample, but not elongate ; they 

 are of a delicate ochreous green colour, which 

 is traversed by slender waved white lines, and 

 decorated with transverse series of black spots ; 

 several of these combine in forming a broad 

 banil across the middle of the wing, but this, 

 again, is interrupted by a pale median space, 

 in which a slender linear discoidal spot may 

 sometimes be traced ; beyond the band is a 

 double series of black spots, and on the hind 

 margin is a single series of double black spots : 

 the hind wings are very pale dingy brown, 

 with the slightest possible trace of a discoidal 

 spot, and a transvei s? line below it. 



