AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 221 



parallel with them ; the hind wings are palo ashy, with brown veins. The caterpillar feeds on the elm, and tlie 

 moth appears in July and August. It is very rare, having occurred only near Darenth Wood, Kent, and in 

 Norfolk. 



PHLOGOPHORA, Stephens. (PHLOGOPHORA, pars, Curtis, Boisd., &c.) 

 Restricting this genus to the Angle-shades moth, it is characterised by the elongated fore wings, deeply 

 undulated along the apical margin, which has a semicircular incision extending from the middle to the anal angle. 

 The palpi have the terminal joint very short, obtuse, and scarcely visible ; the thorax is crested behind as 

 well as slightly in front ; the antennae are slender and simple in both sexes. The caterpillar is naked, and neither 

 tubercled nor hairy, and of a green colour. It feeds on herbaceous plants, and the chrysalis is enclosed in a 

 slender cocoon, placed on the surface of the ground. This genus is closely allied to Euphasia (ante p. 170) in 

 the folding of the fore wings, larva?, &c. 



SPECIES 1.— PHLOGOPHORA METICULOSA. Plate XLVIII., Fig. 5, G. 



Synonyme. — Phal. Noctua meticu!osa, Lian.Tus; Fabr. ; Hubncr; Trcitscbke -, Ilawoith ; Donovan, 4, pi. 139; Albin, pi. 30, fii^. 4G, 

 47, a— c ; \\'ilkcs, pi. 3 ; Harris, Aurclian, pi. 41 , fig. c— e. Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 16, fig. 380. 



This handsome insect measures about "2 inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which arc of a pinkish buff 

 colour, with a large, obconical, central patch of brown, fulvous and reddish shades occupying the centre of tlie 

 wing, in which the two ordinary stigmata are obsoletely represented of a paler tinge ; from the posterior extremity 

 of this patch, and towards the base of the wing, arises a smaller, irregular, somewhat triangular patch of a paler 

 brown ; and beyond the central patch is a broad stripe of pale colour, on which are two very slender angulated 

 strifffi ; the apical margin itself is rather olivaceous brown, with tlie apex rosy, a brown lunate spot being placed 

 near the tip ; the hind wings are whitish, with the venis, a central lunule, and a striga beyond the middle, and a 

 broader subapical one brownish. The caterpillar is green or brownish, with an interrupted line down the back, 

 and a pale lateral line. It feeds on nettles, chickweed, &c., and the moths appear in Slay and September, 

 there beinf two broods in the year. Haworth and Stephens, indeed, describe it as having three broods in the 

 year. It is a very common insect. 



CUCULLIA, ScHR.^NK. 

 The fore wings are long and lanceolate in this numerous and difficult genus ; the palpi, with the terminal 

 joint, very short, obtuse, and scarcely visible ; the antenna? long, slender, and alike in both sexes ; the spiral 

 tongue very long ; the thorax crested ; the body long and crested, bifid at the tip in the males. The caterpillars 

 arelong. cylindric, naked, and coloured and variegated ; tliey feed on the flowers of syngenesious or scrophu- 

 lariaceo'iis plants, and the pupc^ are enclosed in a cocoon, being furnished with a singular elongated appendage 

 arising on the breast, enclosing the elongated spiral tongue. Stephens divides the genus into two sections, from 

 the denticulated or entire wings ; an.l Boisduval adopts the same sections, but characterises them from the food 

 of the larvcB, these species with denticulated wings feeding on Verbascum and Scrophularia. The indigenous 

 species of this section are grouped together in our 48th plate, whilst the rest with entire wings occupy the 

 49th plate. ■ 



SPECIES 1.— CUCULLIA VERBASCI. Plate XLVIII., Fiu. 7,8 



„, , . , . ,. „i « fi,r ^ p. Stfnhens ; Rambin, Ann. See. Ent. 



SM^ossHES.-Phal. Noclua Verbasci, Unn^us; Ochsenhe.mcr ; Au.ehan, pi. 8, fig a-c , J>ttp. , . 



Fabrioins; HUbner ; Haworth; Albin. pi. 13, fig. 18, f-U. ; Harris, I France, 1833, pi. l,fig.6; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 10, b. 378. 



This species measures from If to 2 inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish brown 



