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iiatch, aiitl there is a triangular white spot near the anal angle. The hind wings are brownish or dirty white, 

 with the anal angle marked by a dusky patch. 



The caterpillar is pale-green and glossy, with a slender yellow lateral lino ; the under side pale fleshy-coloured. 



It is rather rare, occurring in the s.anie situations as the preceding species in July. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XIV. 



Insfcts. — Fig. 1. Lophopteryx Canieliiia ( the cuxcomb Prominent). 2. TIic Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 3. Lophopteryx Ciicullina (the maple Prominent). 4. The Caterpillar. 



*' Fig. 5. Lopho])tcryx Carmelita. 



" Fig. 6. Pterostoma Palpina (^tlic pale Prominent). 



" Fig. 7. Pctasia Cassinia (the Sprawler). 8. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 9. Pcridea trepiila (the great Prominent). 10. The Caterpillar. 



*' Fig. 11. Drymonia dodonEpa (the marbled brown). 



" Fig. 1.*?. Drymonia ehaonia (the lunar marbled brown). 14. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 1.5. CJlnphi&ia crenata. 



" Fig. 16. Drymonia qiicrna. 17. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 18. Ptilo]ibora plumigcra. ly. The Caterpillar. 



Plants. — Fig. 20. Acer Canipestre (tlie common Maple). 



" Fig. 21. Quercus Sessiliflora (a variety of the common oak). 



" Fig. 22. Lignstruui viilgare (the common Privet). 



Pig3. 1, 7, 9, 11, 13, are from specimens kindly furnished by Mr. H. Doubleday ; all the rest are from specimens in the British Museum. 

 The caterpillars 8 and 4 are from the original drawings of Standish ; lliibner represents 8 of the same form, but white, delicately tinted with 

 glaucous green, with conspicuous red stripes. The others are from Hiibner. 11. N. H. 



LOPHOPTERYX *, Stephens. 



Tills group is separated by BIr. Stephens, on account of the thorax of the species of which it consists being 

 crested ; wings with the outer margins dentate ; the iiind margin of the triangular fore-wings with a simple 

 lobe ; the antennas of the males alone bipectinated ; the abdomen in the males terminated by a trifid scaly tuft. 

 The caterpillars are furnished with one or two conical protuberances near the extremity of the body. 



SPECIES 1.— LOPHOPTERYX CAMELINA. Plate XIV., Fig. 1, 2. 



Odontosia caiiiclina, Hiibner, Veiz. bek. Schm. 



Phal. [Bomb.) capucina, Linn;cus; Espcr, 3, pi. 70, fig. 1 — 5. 



Synonymes. — Phal. {Bomb.) camelina, Linna-us ; Alhin, pi. G9, 

 lig. ::, c, d, c ; Donovan, pi. 183. 



Lophopteryx camelina, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 5, f. 29. 



This species varies from 1| to 1 ,} inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish hue, inclining 



to brown, with a dark bar, angulated at each side, terminating at the brown posterior lobe, and succeeded by a 



paler bar, and gradually dilated towards the costa ; there are also other denticulated lines, and darker stripes 



varying in intensity in different individuals. The hind wings are ochre-brown, with a dark patch at the anal 



angle, glossed with blue. 



* Derived from the Greek, and alluding to the crest on the hind margin of the fore wings. 



