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The larva feeds on the red Whortleberry (Vaccinium Vitis- 

 id&a). It is whitish, with a very pale brown or luteous-coloured 

 head; shield of same colour, but darker behind. The spots 

 brown, and the anal segment margined laterally and transversely 

 with grey. 



Genus III. ANCHYLOPERA, STEPHENS. 



Palpi short, slender, remote, porrected horizontally ; clothed with 

 scales, chiefly towards the apex ; basal joint oblong, curved, droop- 

 ing, pyriform ; apical slender, obovate, not so long as the basal ; 

 middle ascending, curved, slightly stouter than the basal beyond, 

 the centre, three times the length of the apical. MaxillaB as long 

 as the palpi. Thorax slender, ovate. Anterior wings, length greater 

 than twice the width. Costa mostly regularly arcuated, sometimes 

 obtusely so towards the base. Apex considerably produced, forming a 

 prominent hook. Apical margin entire, dorsal margin rounded. The 

 discoidal cell extends two-thirds along the wing and receives a nervure 

 inserted in the subcostal vein, midway between the first and second 

 subcostal nervures, which passes to the apical vein at the insertion 

 of the first apical nervure. Posterior wings ample ; apex obtuse ; 

 apical margin concave. The median vein sometimes simple, at others 

 furcate. Abdomen long, slender and tufted at the apex in the <$ ; 

 stout and obtuse in the $ . 



A very natural genus, of considerable extent, and distinguished 

 from the rest of the group by the falcated or produced apex of 

 the anterior wings, and the longitudinal character of the mark- 

 ings (except the last species, A. unguicella, where they are more 

 transverse), which are also very varied. With few exceptions, the 

 species are tolerably common, and the larvse are of various habits ; 

 some feeding on herbaceous plants (A. Lundana), and others on 

 shrubs and forest trees (A. Upupana). The imago of many of 

 them have been successfully bred by several collectors, but the 

 larvae themselves have not yet been the subject of critical obser- 

 vation. 



The known British species attain to the number of fourteen, 

 and are arranged as in the following table. On the Continent 

 are several others. 



A. Anterior wings not marked longitudinally by an 

 undulating or flexuous striga, and without fasciae . Species 1-3 



B. Anterior wings marked longitudinally. 



a. By an undulating line obliquely from the base 



to the apex Species 4-7 



K 2 



