172 HAUSTELLATA. LKPIDOPTERA. 



what abbreviated angulated violaceous striga, and two others behind^ common 

 to all the wingSj approximating towards the eosta of the anterior ; of these the 

 first is brown, the second brown and violet, with some black spots on the 

 posterior wings, towards the inner margin ; towards the apex of the anterior 

 wings is a violaceous lunule ; posterior wings more griseous. Female larger, 

 and of a paler hue. 



Slightly variable in colour and in size. 



Caterpillar black, and brown varied : it feeds on the privet, lilac, willow, jas- 

 mine, &c., and changes to a robust brown pupa : — the imago appears in June 

 or July. 



Not common : I found several examples in a garden at Ripley 

 in July, 1S27 ; and I have also taken specimens at Bircli-wood and 

 near Highgate. " Woodside." — T. C. Heyahara, Esq. " Allesley 

 and Co\e%\\\\\:'—Rdv. W. T. Bree. " Epping."— i¥r. Doubleday. 

 " In gardens at Swaffiiani Prior, Cambridgeshire." — Rev. L.Jenyns, 

 " Weston-on-the-green." — Rev. A. H. MaUhezvs. 



Genus CLXXVII. — Angerona, Duponchel. 



Palpi very short, slender, remote, triarticulate, the basal joint considerably 

 longer than the other two united, the second short, subglobose, the terminal 

 minute: maxillw elongate. Antennte rather strongly bipectinated in the 

 males, excepting the five or six apical joints, which are serrate ; simple in 

 the females : head subglobose, small : thorax narrow, slightly velvety : wings 

 during repose with the anterior covering the posterior, the former with the 

 hinder mai-gin rounded, entire, the latter rounded and irregularly emarginate. 

 Larva with 10 legs, attenuated in front ; head small, prominent 5 the fourth 

 and eighth segments tuberculated : pupa formed in a slight web amongst 

 leaves. 



Angerona, M^liich has been associated by different writers with 

 Geometra and Hipparchus, differs from both : from the former in 

 the form of the wings, the anterior being entire, and the posterior 

 rounded and irregularly denticulated ; and from the latter also by 

 its dissimilar wangs, and by the diversity in their colour and in the 

 metamorphosis. 



Sp. 1. Prunaria. Alisin mare aurantiacis, inJ'aemindflavis,fusco-pulverulentis, 

 lunula omnium fus^fi : margine postico interdum fusco. (Exp. alar. $ 1 unc. 

 10 lin. — 2 unc. 9 2 unc. — 2 unc. 2 Un.) 



Ph. Ge. Prunaria. Linne. — N. G. Prunaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 120. N'o. 

 64>7 6.— Don. ix. pi. '293./. 3. var. 



Male with all the wings bright orange, thickly freckled with fuscous, and a 



