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black dots ; the liind wings arc dark brown, with a dark spot in the centre, followed by a slender, black, 

 transverse line, edged with whitish, and with a white subapical stripe. The thorax has two black arches in front. 

 Tlie caterpillar is depressed, and of an ashy colour, with dark lines and marks on the back ; the sides paler, 

 with a darker line running along the spiracles ; it varies, however, in its colouring, and feeds on various trees, as 

 the oak, beech, apple, &c., hiding itself by day in the crevices of the bark, the moth appearing in the middle of 

 April and October. It is mostly taken by digging for the pupas at the roots of trees. It is a common and 

 widely-dispersed species. 



Note — Boisduval forms this species .ilonc into his genus Agriopis ; its caterpillar state tiifFering from that of the [jrcceding species. 



SPECIES G.— MISELIA TEMPLI. Plate XXXIX., Fig. II. 



SvNoNi MEs.— A''oc/Ku TempH, Thuiiherg ; Ochscnheimer ; Stephens ; 111. Hatist. .'J, pi. 26, f. I (Folia T.) ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 13, f. 301. 



Cri/modes Templi, Guenee ; Douhlcday. 



This species measures li inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a dark greenish ashy-brown, 

 with yellowish stigmata and waved strigaj, which are, however, very indistinctly marked, tlie stigmata being 

 small ; the striga preceding the stigmata is very much angulated, and edged with black, and that following 

 them is curved and much indented, and the subapical one is irregularly waved. The centre of tlie wing is 

 darkest ; the cilia is concolorous, with dark spots ; the hind wings ashy yellow, with a rather indistinct, central 

 lunule, and two dusky strigte. 



Very rare, but widely disjiersed, having been taken in Devonshire, and near Liverpool and Birmingham. 

 This species scarcely appears to possess a stronger relation with the typical Miselias, than with the Polia?, in which 

 genus it is placed by Mr. Stephens. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XL. 



Insects. — Fig. I. Polia advena (the pale shiny hrown). 



" Fig. 2. PoUa nehulosa (the gray arches). 3. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 4. Polia occulta (the great hrocade). 5. The Caterpillar. 



'* Fig. 6. Polia Tincta (the silvery arches). 



" Fig. 7. Polia Herbida (the green arches). 8.. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 9. Polia Flavocincta (the large Ranunculus). 10. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 11. Polia Dysodea (the Ranunculus), 12. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 13. Polia Serena (the broad-barred white). 14. The Caterpillar. 



Fig. 1.5. Polia Chi (the July Chi). 

 Plants. — Fig. 16. Aquilegia vulgaris (common Columbine), 

 Figure 7, Polia Herbida, is from a beautiful drawing by J. Marshall, Esq., made while the fine insect taken by himself was still fresh, a great 

 advantage, as the rich green tint very soon fades ; so that the specimens generally seen in cabinets convey but a slight idea of the lively colouring of 

 the living moth. Figs. 1, 2, 4, 13, and 15, are from specimens furnished me by Mr. H. Doubleday ; 4, P. occulta, from one of three specimens 

 captured by that gentleman this season at Epping. Figs. 6, 9, and 11, are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley. All the caterpillars are from HUbner. 

 Polia Polymita, which is in our lists as a British species, I have omitted altogether, as the only specimen upou which its insertion was founded; 

 the one in the cabinet bequeathed by the late Mr. Vigors to the Zoological Society, has been lost. H. N. H. 



POLIA, HiJBNER. (APLECTA, Guen£e, Bdv., nec POLIA, Bdv.) 



The species of this group, as here associated together, according to the views of English authors, form an 

 artificial assemblage, comprising, however, some of the largest insects of the present family, some of them being 

 very closely allied to tlie Miselia, from which, however, they differ in their larvEe being without protuberances 

 .at the extremity of the body. The antenncc are slender, with the underside furnished, in the males, with a row 

 of bristles, or with pectinated lobes ; the palpi are elevated as high as the top of the eyes, and obliquely porrected ; 



