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BRITISH MOTHS 



wings with a striga of dark dots followed by a wliite central speck, circled with dusky and followed by a curved 

 brown or purplish bar, beyond which is another distant much curved row of dark dots, the apical portion of the 

 wing often shaded with purplish clouds. The ground colour, irrorations, and strigae are very variable. The 

 caterpillar also varies very greatly from brown to greenish yellow, mottled with paler colours. It feeds on 

 various forest trees ; and the moth, which is very common in woods, appears at the end of May and August. 



** Stnonymes. — Ph, Geometra porata, LinDsus; Stephens, 111. ; 

 Wood, fig. 530 ; Albin, pi. 1, fig. 85, a— d. 



Geometra punctaria, Hiibner, but not of Linnaeus. 

 Geometra ocellaria, Haworth ; Stephens' Cat. 



Geometr.\ ocellaria, Hiibner, Wood, Plate LIV., Fig. 60, was incorrectly introduced into the British 

 lists by Mr. Haworth in mistake for this species, but although Mr. Stephens corrected this error in his Illus- 

 trations, Mr. Curtis, two years afterwards, disingenuously accused the latter author of this inaccurate citation. 



Species 5. — Ephyra punctaria'". — (Plate LXI., Fig. 22. Caterpillar.) — This species measures rather 

 more than I inch in expanse, and has the wings of a reddish buff-colour, thickly irrorated with reddish brown 

 and dusky atoms, with an indistinct series of dots near the base, followed by a nearly straight central reddish- 

 brown striga, beyond which is a much curved row of dark dots, and some subapical more or less obsolete 

 purplish clouds. The ground colour and markings are very variable. The caterpillar is greenish or reddish 

 brown, with pale streaks on the sides ; it feeds on the oak j and the moth appears at the end of May, and in 

 August in woods, and is very abundant. 



^ SvNoNYMES. — Pha^cBna Geometra punctaria^ Linnaeus ; Ha- 

 worth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 531. 



PhaliBiia Geometra communifasciata, Donovan, 13, pi. 456. 



Phalana amataria, Wilkes, pi. 74, fig. inf. 

 Geometra snbangularia, Haworth, (variety). 



Species 6. — Ephyra trilinearia"*. — (Plate LXI., Fig. 23.) — This species measures rather more than 

 1 inch in expanse, and has the wings of an orange clay colour, traversed by three dark fasciae, the middle one being 

 the broadest, and nearer to the third or subapical one ; the first and third strigee are sometimes almost obsolete, 

 and in fine specimens the ordinary central ocellus of the genus is also slightly visible. Found in woods in the 

 south of England, but not common. 



^ Synonvmes Geometra trilinearia, Borkhausen ; Stephens ; Treitschke ; Duponchcl ; Wood, fig. 532. 



Geometra linearia, Hiibner ; Haworth. 



Species ? 7. — Ephyra albicinctata. — Haworth (p. 344) gives the following description of an insect, which 

 has remained unique to the present time, and which has been referred to this genus. " Wings black, each with 

 a central white dot, and a white striga across all the wings near the apical margin." Formerly taken neai 

 Peckham, by Mr. Pickersgill. In the collection of J. Hatchett, and of the size and form of G. AlchemiUata. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Bradyepetes amaLiria (the blood vein). 2. The 



Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 3. Epione apiciaria (the bordered beauty). 

 ,, Fig. 4. Epione vespertaria (the dai'k-bordered beauty). 5. 



The Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 6. Epione advenaria (the little thorn). 

 ,, Fig. 7. Eurymene dolabraria (the scorched wing). 8. 



The Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 9. Aspilates citraria (the yellow belle). 10. A 



. variety. 

 ,, Fig. 11. Aspilates gilvaria (the straw belle). 

 ,, Fig. 13. Aspilates respersaria (the grass wave). 14. Tlie 



Caterpillar. 



Insects. — Fig. 15. Phasiane plumbaria (the belle). 



,, Fig. 16. Larentia cervinaria (the mallow). 12. The 



Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 17. Larentia chenopodiaria (the small mallow). 2"2, 



The Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 18. Larentia bipunctaria (the chalk carpet). 

 ,, Fig. 20. Larentia muUistrigaria (the mottled grey). 



Plant. — Fig. 21. Althaea officinalis (the marshmallow). 



The whole of the insects in this plate are from the collection of 

 Mr. Bcntley ; the caterpillars are from Hiibner. H. N. H. 



