AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 



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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LX. 



Insects. — Fig. 1 . 



Fig. 3. 



,. Fig. 5. 



Fig. 6. 



Fig. 8. 



Fig. 10. 



Fig. 



12. 



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13. 



Fig. 



14. 



Fig. 



15. 



Fig. 



16. 



Fig. 



21. 



Fig. 



23. 



Fig. 25. 



Ilipparchus papilionarius (the large emerald). 2. 



The Caterpillar. 

 Hcmithea vcniaria (the small emerald). 4. 



Caterpillar. 

 Hcmithea smaragdaria (the Essex emerald). 

 HcDiithea cythisaria (the grass emerald). 7. 



Caterpillar. 

 Cleora bajularia (the blotched emerald). 9. 



The Caterpillar. 

 Cleora lichcnaria (the lime moss). 11. The 



Caterpillar. 

 Cleora viduaria (the speckled beauty). 

 Cleora tencraria (the dotted carpet). 

 Cleora cinctaria (the ringed carpet). 

 Cleora pictaria (the grey carpet), 

 Alois rcpandaria (the mottled beauty). 19. The 



variety called muraria. 20. The variety called 



conversaria. 18. The Caterpillar. 

 Alcis sericearia (the satin carpet). 

 Alcis roboraria (the great oak beauty). 24. The 



Caterpillar. 

 Alcis rhomboidaria (the willow beauty). -0. A 



The I Insects, 



Th< 



dark variety. 2". The Caterpillar. 27. The 

 variety called consobrinaria. 

 Fig. 28. Alcis consortaria (the pale oak beauty). 29. The 

 Caterpillar, 

 „ Fig. 30. Alcis fimbriaria (the bordered beauty). 

 ,, Fig. 42 is the Caterpillar of Campoea niargaritaria, figured 



in plate 9. 

 M Fig. 22 is the Caterpillar of Boarmia abietaria, figured in 

 plate fil. 

 All the insects figured in tliis plate arc from the collection of Mr. 

 Bentley, with the exception of H, smaragdaria, from a Continental 

 specimen in the British iMuscum, and A. fimnriftria, from the figure in 

 Mr. Stephens's " British Entomology." Tlie caterpillar of C. lichcnaria 

 is from one taken at Weybridge by Mr. E. Doublcday. The others 

 are from Iliibner. 



Several caterpillars arc represented in this plate upon the plant, 

 Clematis vitalba, although the food only of one of them ; but the 

 necessity of figuring so many insects on each plate, in order to keep the 

 work within a small compasp, prevents the possibility of introducing a 

 separate plant for each caterpillar. This explanation will also apply to 

 very many of the ensuing plates. H. N. 11. 



HIPPARCHUS, Le.\ch. GEOxMETRA, Boisduval. 



The large size, slightly denticulated hind wings, elevated palpi, with the last joint naked, pectinated male 

 antennae, short spiral tongue, Notodontiform tuberculated larva, and folliculated chrysalis, distinguish this genus 

 from the other green Geometridse. 



Species 1. — Hipparchus papilionabius". — (Plate LX., Figs. 1, 2.) — This large species measures from 2i 

 to 2^ inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which, as well as the hind ones, are of a deep grass green (which 

 soon fades), with a slight dusky lunula at the extremity of the discoidal cell, followed on all the wings by two 

 wavy pale strigae. The caterpillar is pale green, with rusty tubercles on the back ; it feeds on the birch and 

 other forest trees, and the moth appears towards the end of July in woods. 



" SvNONVME Ph. Geom. papilionaria, Linneeus; Donovan 8, pi. "287, fig. 1 ; Harris, Expos., pi. 13, fig. I ; Wood, fig. 494. 



HEMITHEA, Duponchel. HIPPARCHUS, pars. Curtis. 

 The singular form of the linear striated larvae, with a bifid head, and the feet when at rest applied close to 

 the body, the first segment of which is armed with two deflexed spines ; the chrysalis speckled ; the antennae of the 

 males slightly pectinated, the green colour of the wings and the slender palpi, are the chief characters of this group. 



Species 1. — Hemithea vernaria^'. — (Plate LX., Figs. 3, 4.) — This pretty species measures about 1 '. incli 

 in expanse; its wings are of a delicate whitish green, the anterior with two and the posterior with one slender 

 white strigae, the latter slightly angulated in the middle of the apical margin. 



The caterpillar green, with pale stripes on the back and sides ; it feeds on the oak, clematis, and other trees ; 

 and the moth appears at the end of July, in chalky places, but is uncommon. 



'Sykosymes. — Phal. Geom. vernaria, Linnaeus; Hiibncr; Harris, Geom. teruginaria, Borkliausen. 



Expos., pi. 8, f. 8 ; Stephens; WooJ, f. 49S. Ph. Geom. fo/«/a/a, Villers ; Haworth. 



Geom. chrytoprasaria, Espcr. Ph. Geom. luciJala, Donovan 3, pi. 97. 



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