AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. j^y 



IJTHOMIA, IIuDNER. (CLOANTHA, A. Gu^nee; XYLINA, p., Rnv.) 

 This genus has the anteniKU of the males furnished with short brushes of liair on each side beneatli ; the palpi 

 have the terminal joint slightly exposed at the tip ; the fore wings are long and narrow, and when at rest are 

 closely deflexed ; the thorax subquadratc, but not tufted in front. The caterpillars arc smooth and cylindrical, 

 with the penultimate segment angularly elevated above. It feeds on Vaccinium Vitis Idffia, and the perfect 

 insect appears at the beginning of the autumn. 



SPECIES 1.— LITHOMIA SOLIDAGINIS. Plate XXXI., Fio. 8. 

 SvNONYME. — Noclua solidaginis, Ilubncr; Trcitsclikc ; Duponchel ; Curtis, Brit. Ent.pl. 68.3 ; Wood, Ind. Ent, pi. .52, lig. Iti67. 



This species measures nearly 1 ;j inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a light grey colour, with 

 several black lines towards the base ; the central part dark brown, edged with two dentatcd black lines ; in the 

 place of the anterior stigma arc two small round grey dots, placed obliquely, and the outer stigma is large, ear- 

 shaped, and pale grey margined with black ; beyond this is a grey dentated line, emitting several long, arrow- 

 like, wedge-shaped black dashes, and the margin slightly spotted with brown ; the hind wings pale brown, witii 

 a yellowish tinge ; the base whiter, with a faint central bar ; the tippets and frontal lobe of the thorax eilgc<l 

 with black. Tlie caterpillar is reddish brown, irroratcd with dusky, and with a few whitish dots on each 

 segment, and a pale yellow line on each side edged with black. The moth appears in August and September, 

 and has been taken in Lancashire at a |)lace called the Brushes, about two miles beyond Staley Bridge, near 

 Manchester, where they occurred in abundance in 1837. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Xj'lnpli;isia lithoxylca (the light arches). 



*' Fig. 2. Xylophasia suhlustris (the reddish light arches). 



'* Fig. 3. Xylophasia polyodon (the dark arches). 



*' Fig. 4. Xylophasia rurea (the clouded bordered briudle). 



*' Fig. 5. Xylophasia combusta (the dark tawny). 



" Fig. 6. Xylophasia characterca (the clouded brindle). 7. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 8. Xylophasia scolopacina (tlic slender clouded brindle). 



** Fig. y. .\ylopliasia recliliuca (the clouded brocade). 10. The Caterpillar. 



Plants. — Fig. 11. Clematis vitalba (Hedge clematis, or Traveller's joy). 

 The whole of the above insects are figured from specimens sent to me by Mr. H. Doubledar, with tlie exception of X. scolopaciua, from 

 Continental specimens in the British Museum, aud .\. rcctilinea from the unique specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Marshall. The caterpillars 

 are from Hiibner. H. N. H. 



-XYLOPHASIA, Stephens. (LUPERINA, p. Boisduval.) 



This genus, although united with Xylina by Curtis and various other authors, is abundantly distinguished 



from that genus, not only in its perfect, but also much more in its preparatory states ; indeed, by recent French 



writers the two groups are very widely separated in their classifications of this difficult family. The antennfe of 



the males are scarcely ciliated, whilst they are simple in the females ; the palpi are of considerable size and bent 



