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wings are dusky, inclining to yellow, and having a pale line 

 near the middle. The caterpillar is of a peculiar form, 

 having a protuberance on the back, a little behind the head, 

 cleft at the summit into two branches, and triangular eleva- 

 tions along the back; the colour is rust-brown; it feeds on 

 the bramble. The moth is not very common, and is found 

 near woods. 



Lepidoptera. Geometrid^. 

 MELANIPPE. 



Generic Distinctions. — Antennce slender and simple; 'palpi 

 short, slender, and acute, terminal joint small and pointed; 

 proboscis rather long. 



Melanippe hastata. Mottled Beauty. This species 

 measures nearly an inch and a half; the ground-colour is 

 white, with a broad black line or band round the hinder 

 margin of all the wings, spotted and interrupted on the 

 inner side ; across the middle of the upper wings is also an 

 irregular black band, nearly divided in the middle by the 

 ground-colour ; the base has another band interrupted by a 

 white crescent ; the under wings have a cross Hne of black 



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