GEOMETRIDiE. — LAMPROPTERYX. 233 



Anterior wings griseous-ash, with a narrow angulated indeterminate purplish- 

 brown fascia near the base, edged externally with white, a second very broad 

 slightly curved one in the middle, coarsely crenate and edged with white on 

 both sides, with two waved darker strigse springing from two pale marks on 

 the costa ; behind this fascia is a series of dark fuscous spots, edged with 

 white exteriorly, of which those towards the costa are conical and the 

 remainder lunate; and on the hinder margin towards the apex is a large 

 semiovate dark patch also bordered with white, the last colour continued in a 

 fine streak to the anal angle : posterior wings fuscescent, with two or three 

 pale waved marks towards the margin edged within with fuscous; cilia of all 

 the wings spotted with fuscous. 

 Slightly variable : in one of my specimens the central fascia on the anterior 



wings is very much attenuated on the inner margin. 

 Caterpillar cinereous or greenish, with reddish or white dorsal spots, and the 

 legs red; and a black ring behind the head: it feeds on the sloe, eira, 

 currant, gooseberry, poplar, &c.:— the imago appears towards the end of 

 July, frequenting gardens. 



Local, but in plenty where found: it occurs in profusion at 

 Ripley, and occasionally at Hertford. " Epping, abundantly in 

 gardens: its larva sometimes strips the currant-bushes of leaves.''— 

 Mr. Doubleday. ''^Qwhy-cxo^sr—T.C. Heysham, Esq. " S waff- 

 ham Prior, Cambridgeshire."— iJev. L. Jenyns. " Strand-on-the- 

 gYeenr—Rev. A. H. Matthews. " Meldon-park;'— G. Wailes, 

 Esq. 



Genus CCIII. — Lampropteryx * miU. 



Palpi very short, scarcely visible from above, remote, densely clothed with 

 scales, the apex acute ; triarticulate, the basal joint short, curved, second 

 longer, cylindric, terminal minute : maxilla; rather long. Antenna; stout in 

 the males, each joint sHghtly produced beneath, and furnished with a row 

 of hairs, in the females more slender and obscurely serrated within : head 

 small, round : ei/es globose : thorax slender, squamous, subcrested behind : 

 wings very glossy, obscurely indented on the hinder margin, the posterior 

 sometimes rather deeply so, the anterior with a central fascia, sometimes 

 unsoUd, and terminated by a series of arcs towards the inner edge of the 

 wing : abdomen slender, long, acuminated towards the apex in the male, and 

 furnished with a large tuft, acuminated in the middle ; of the female stouter 

 and shorter, with a small anal tuft. Larva with 10 legs, smooth, cylindric, 

 naked : pupa in a web amongst leaves. 



* Aaii^Atrgof , nitidus ; -rn^ov, ala. 



Haustellata. Vol. III. 31st May, 1831. 



