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and reniform; the second elongate, a little acuminate at the apex; terminal 

 elongate, sublinear, obtuse : ?naxillcE moderate. Antennce rather short, robust, 

 simple in both sexes : head with a dense somewhat woolly froiifcal tuft: eyes 

 small, globose, naked: thorax not crested, somewhat woolly: Z>o</?/ elongate, 

 carinated on the back, with a small tuft at the apex in both sexes : wings 

 entire, deflexed during repose; anterior elongate-triangular, the posterior 

 margin a little rounded, acute at the apex; stigmata indistinct. Larva very 

 hau-y, and sometimes with dense fascicles on the back : pupa folliculated. 



Apatela Leporlna, which forms the type of Hiibner's Apatelje, 

 and its ally A. Bradyporina, differ so considerably in form from the 

 Acronyctse of Ochsenheimer, and their larvae are so remarkably 

 dissimilar, that I long since separated them as a genus, to which 

 Noctua Aceris (and several North American species) may be 

 added: the larvse of all the species are clothed with extremely 

 long hairs, which are so compactly placed in the typical species as 

 almost to conceal their form; and several have, in addition, one 

 or more dense tufts on the back, as in the Dasychirse. 



Sp. 1. Leporina. AKs anticis albis punctis lineolisqueflexis nigris, posticis niveis 



immaculatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 8 Un.) 

 Ph. No. Leporina. Linne.—Don. x. pi. 327. f. 1.— Ap. Leporina. Steph. CataL 



part ii. p. 91. No. 6275. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings white, the latter with a sUghtly curved black 

 lineola at the base, arising from a simQar-coloured streak, which has its orioin 

 at the apex of the palpi, and passes through the eyes and along the sides of 

 the thorax ; behind the basal hneola are two black spots placed transversely, 

 the largest on the costa, the other opposite to the apex of the Uneola on the 

 disc ; behind the middle on the costa is a more or less flexuous black streak 

 with a smaller one opposed to it near the inner margin ; beyond this is a 

 faint, somewhat interrupted, and frequently nearly obliterated, black striga; 

 and on the hinder margin is a row of black spots : posterior wings shinino- 

 immaculate snowy-white ; the nervures sometimes a httle fuscescent. 



The black markings are larger and more distinct in some specimens than others, 

 and the row of spots on the posterior margin is sometimes continued to the 

 apex of the cilia. 



Caterpillar clothed with long yellow, or yellowish-white hairs, with several 

 black tufts down the back: it feeds on the alder, willow, poplar, birch, elm, 

 &c., in the autumn ; and the imago appears about the middle of May; and 

 occasionally a second brood is produced in August 



Somewhat rare: the larva is occasionally beaten out of the 

 birches in Coombe-wood; and I have captured it in Darenth- 



wood; it likewise occurs at Birch-wood. " Packington." Rev. 



W. T. Bree. 



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