AND TIIKIIl TRANSFORMATIONS. ^g 



Tlio caterpillar is green or reddish, ^vitli tlu' back pale, a yellow line spotted with red at the sides, and two 

 red points on the hack at the extremity of the body. It feeds on oak, birch, popl.ir, willow, &c., and appears 

 in May and at the end of September; the moth (according to Ilawortli) being produced at the beginnino- of 

 May and August. Uoisduval, however, gives June alone as its time of appearance. It is one of our commonest 

 species of Proniinents. A figure of the larva in its more ordinary position is given in my Introduction, vol. ii. 

 p. 38r,,fig. 2. 



SI'ECIKS 2.-LOPHOPTERYX CARMELITA. Plate XIV., Pre. 5. 



SVNONVMES.— Bom Jy.r carmelita, Espcr; Ocliscnlicimcr ; Stciihens, I Bombyx capucina, HUbner, (ncc Liun^us). 

 111. IIiiusl. pi. 14, fig. 3; Wooil, Iiid. Knt. pi. l!, f. .'il. | 



This species measures rather more than 1;} inch in the expanse of the fore win^s, whieli have the fore raaroins 

 reddish-brown, with a small white spot before the middle, and a larger triangular one beyond the middle ; the 

 posterior margin of the wing is pale greyish- white, with a slight purplish tinge, and an oblique row of dusky 

 spots at some distance preceding the outer margin. The disk is also irrorated with lioht and dark freckles, 

 especially along the veins, and the hind marginal tooth is brown. The hind wings are reddish-bro\vii, with a 

 slight pale fascia crossing them beyond the middle, terminating in two dark abbreviated streaks near the anal an^le. 



The caterpillar is green, with a yellow dorsal line and a stripe of the same colour, hut spotted with red on 

 each side above the feet. It feeds on the birch. 



Extremely rare. Found in Darenth and Ongar-park AVoods in the spring, March (Stephens), Jlay (Bois- 

 duval). In the cabinets of the British Museum and Zoological Society. 



This and the preceding species form a distinct section in the genus, the larva having two conical lobes on the 

 terminal segment. 



SPECIES a— LOPIIOPTERYX CUCULLINA. Pi.ati^ XIV., Vm. 3, 4. 



Synonvmes. — Bombyx Cncullina, U'ien, Vcr/..; Hiitmcr; Och- ' Jiimih. cucul/a, Ki-in-r : Borkhauscn ; Ilaworth ; Donovan, vol. x., 

 scnhcimcr ; Boisduv.iI (Notodonu Cue). pi. 3;W, fig. 1 ; Sitplicns (Loplioptcryi Cue.) ; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. .5, 



! fig. 30. 



This species measures from 1,1 to 1,} inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale ochre colour, 

 spotted and striped with brownish-red, especially be3-ond the middle and along the hind margin, and with a 

 broad sub-apical whitish fascia, interrupted in the middle ; the eosta has several short dark streaks beyond the 

 middle ; the hind wings grey brown, with a dark brown red patch at the anal angle. 



The caterpillar is pale grey, with a dark patch on the back of the anterior segments, beyond which the 

 segments are dorsally elevated, and with a more distinct conical protuberance near the extremity of the body. 

 It feeds on maple and some of the species of thorns, and is found in August. The moth appears at the beginning 

 of the following summer. It is very rare in England, but sometimes occurs in the woods of Kent. 



PTEROSTOMA*, GERM.iB. (PTILODONTIS, Stephens.) 



This genus is at once distinguished by the great length of the palpi (which are nearly half as long as the 

 antennie), which, together with the crest on the thorax, and the tifo lobes on the hind margin of the fore 



* Derived from the Greek, in allusion to the large palpi appearing like a pair of small wings attaihed to the mouth. 



