GEOMETRIDiE. — MINOA. 



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Genus CCXXIX.— Minoa, Treitschke. 



Palpi very short, remote, acute, greatly compressed, densely clothed with elongate 

 loose scales, triarticulate 5 the two basal joints of equal length, the second 

 slighter, rather attenuated, third minute, ovate, obtuse: maxillcs rather long. 

 Antenna long, rather thick, simple in both sexes, faintly pubescent within in 

 the males : head small ; forehead not prominent ; eyes small : thorax slender : 

 wiiigs placed erect during repose, entire, rounded, of one colour on both sur- 

 faces : cilia moderate, even : abdomen slender, the back carinated, the apex 

 obtuse, with a squamous tuft: legs moderate; posterior tibice with two pair 

 of spurs. Larva naked, rather gay, tapering anteriorly, with the head small : 

 pupa folliculated. 



The perfect simplicity of the wings of this genus, combined M'ith 

 their robust simple antennae, short palpi and cilia, added to the 

 strongly diurnal habits of the insects, which delight in gambolling 

 in the sunshine, and repose with erected wings, sufficiently point 

 out their distinction. Duponchel divides the genus into two, calling 

 Mi. Chserophyllata by the term Tanagra, which cannot be admitted, 

 even were the genus itself distinct, being long pre-occupied in orni- 

 thology. 



Sp. 1. Chterophyllata. Jtra, alis anticis apice solo albis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc— 



1 unc. 2 lin.) 

 Ph. Chserophyllata. Linn'^.—Don. vii. pi. 253./. 4.— Mi. Charophyllata. Steph. 



Catal. part \i. p. 146. No. 6679. 



Antennae, body and wings, excepting a slender border at the apex of the anterior 



ones, of a deep sooty black, immaculate. 

 Caterpillar dirty-green, with the head paler : it feeds on the Chaerophyllum 



sylvestre : — the imago is found in the beginning of June. 



In great profusion in Richmond-park, Kensington-gardens, and 

 in other places within the metropolitan district. " Raehills." — Rev. 

 W. Little. " Gamlingay-heath."— i?^y. L. Jenyns. " Abundant 

 near Tunbridge-wells, July, 1830."— Mm Harvey. " Newbiggin 

 and Black Hall Woods."— T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Newcastle, &c." 

 — G. Wailes,Esg. 



Sp. 2. Euphorbiata. Totafusco-cinerea, oculis nigins, alis immaculatis. (Exp. 

 alar. 9—10 lin.) 



