„T BRITISH MOTHS 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XIII. 



Insects.— Fig. 1 . Staiiropiis Fagi (the Lubstcr). 2. Tlje Caterpillar. 



" Fij. 3. IIaiiiinat()|)hor.'i Bucephala (the l.iiir-tip Mutli). 4. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 5. Clostera Anastomosis. &. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 6. Clostora Heclusa (the small chocolate tip). 7. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 8. Clostera Suffusa, 



" Fig. 9. Clostera Anachoreta (the scarce chocolate tip). 9. Tlie Caterjnllar. 



" Fig. 10. Clostera Ciirtula (the chocolate tip). 10. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 11. NotoJonta Dromedarhis (the iron promiiioat). 12. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 13. Notodonta Perfusca (the dark prominent). 



" Fig. 14. Notodonta Zic-7.ac (the pebhle prominent). 15. The Caterpillar. 



" Fie. Iti. Leiocampa Dicta;a (the Swallow prominent). 17. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 11'. Leiocampa Dictaiodes (the swallow likeness). 19. The Caterpillar. 



Plants. Fig. 20. Corylus avellana (the common hazel). 21. PopuUis trcmula (the aspen). 22. Fagns sylvatica 



(the common beech). 

 Fijures 3, 6, 10, 14, 16, 18, arc from specimens kindly furnished me by Mr. H. Doubleday. The others are from British specimens in the 

 liritish Museum, with the exception of C. Anastomosis, which is from a foreign specimen, and C. Suffusa and N. Perfusca, which are from 

 Mr. Stephens's figures. 



The caterpillars of S. Fagi and N. Dromedarius .-ire from Standish's original drawings in the British Museum ; all the others are from 

 lliihner. Although the forms of some of these larvce are exceedingly singular, in the chrysalis form they present no striking peculiarity ; and I 

 have not thercfoie thoupht it worth while to give figures of any of them. II. N. H. 



STAUROPUS*, Germab, Stephens. (HARPYIA, Boisduv.m.). 



This genus is at once distinguished by the male antennaj having about one fourtli of tlieir length at the tip 

 destitute of pectinations, the basal portion being bipcctinatcd ; the female has the entire antenna simple. The 

 inaxillsB can scarcely be called conspicuous (as described by Boisduval), consisting only of two rudinicntal lobes. 

 Tiic fore wings are narrow, elongate-ovate, with several elevated tufts of scales. But it is in the larva state that 

 the genus is most easily distinguished, the caterpillar being of a most singular form ; whence it has obtained 

 amongst collectors the name of the Lobster. Its singularity consists in the great length and slenderness of the 

 second and third pair of feet, the angulated back, and the dilated, recurved extremity of the body, furnished with 

 two long, slender, horny appendages, which take the place of the ordinary anal feet of the caterpillars. 



SPECIES 1.— STAUROPUS FAGI. Plate XIII., Fig. 1, 2. 



Synonymes. — Phal. (Bomb.) Fagi, Linnscus ; Donovan, vol. 12, Tcrasioii Fagi, Hiibuer, Verz. 



pi. 328 ; Albin, pi. .58 ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 674 (.Stauropus F.) ; Harpyia Fagi, Boisduval, (ien. et Ind. Meth. 



Wood, Ind. Ent. tab. o, f. 23. 



This rare species varies from 2^ to 3 inches in expanse ; it is of a dull greyi.sh-brown, with the fore wings 



varied towards the base and hind margin with reddish ; the base is pale, succeeded by a broad dark bar, with 



♦ Derived from the Greek (rrmpos, valUis, and jrous, pes ; evidently in allusion to the singular feet of the larva. 



