1*78 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



antennsBj which is subserrate ; simple in the females : head small : thorax 

 narrow, slightly velvety : wings placed in a triangular position during repose ; 

 the anterior obscurely repanded, the posterior sUghtly denticulated on the 

 hinder margin ; all of a green hue, with lunular spots disposed in strigse : 

 abdomen slightly robust in both sexes, but stoutest in the female. Larva with 

 10 legs, short, cylindrical; head rounded; the middle segments tubercular: 

 pupa formed in a transparent cocoon amongst leaves. 



The type of the genus Hipparehus of Leach being Ph. papilio- 

 naria, and no other indigenous species agreeing therewith, it is 

 necessary here to employ his name, being the first proposed and 

 characterized : — the genus may be known by the large size of the 

 insect, combined with its green tints and irregularly strigated 

 wings, the integrity of the hinder margin of the anterior and regu- 

 larly denticulated posterior ones ; — the larva also differs by having 

 the head round, and the body differently tuberculated. 



Sp. 1. Papilionarius. Viridis, alls strigis duahus communibus subposticis punc- 

 . torum albidorum. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 2 — 6 hn.) 



Ph. Ge. Papilionaria. Linne. — Don. viii. pi. 287. f. 1.— Hi. Papilionarius. Steph. 

 Catal. part ii. p. 122. No. 6481. 



Deep grass-green ; the anterior wings with two, or three, transverse strigje, 

 composed of whitish lunular spots, the two hinder of which always exist, and 

 are carried on through the posterior wings behind the middle; towards the 

 middle of the costa of the anterior wings, and on the disc of the posterior, is a 

 darker green lunule : the antennae are reddish-white, with the radii in the 

 male of a brighter red. 



Caterpillar green, with a yellowish lateral line and red tubercles on the back : 

 it feeds on the lime, birch, alder, hazel, &c. :— the pupa is brownish, with 

 yellowish-green spots : the imago is produced about the middle of July. 



Not very common : I have taken it occasionally at Darenth- 

 wood, and once in a lane near Birch-wood I saw many dozens of 

 the wings, several in fine condition, strewed about under an old oak. 

 " Woods near Newbiggin, Rockcliff, &c." — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. 

 "York, rarely." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. " AUesley and Coles- 

 hill."— ff^z;. W. T. Bree. " Keswick."— G. Wailes, Esq. « Weston- 

 on-the-green." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. " Waldershare, Kent." — 

 Miss Harvey, 



Genus CLXXXIII. — Hemithea, Duponchel. 



Palpi slender, short, scaly, remote, triarticulate ; the basal joint stouter and 

 rather shorter than the second, which is curved at the base and attenuated; 

 terminal minute, subglobose : maxilla; exposed, short, slender. Antennce 



