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BRADYEPETES, Stephens. TIMANDRA, Duponchel, Bdv. 

 This genus has the antennas rather strongly bipectinated nearly to the tip ; the palpi slender and short ; the 

 fore wings acute and hooked at the tip, and the hind wings strongly angulated in the middle of the hind margin^ 

 traversed by a straight, dark, oblique striga. The caterpillar is short and thick, dilated in front towards the 

 head, which is contractile. It feeds on low herbs. 



Species 1. — Bradyepetes amataria'^. — (Plate LXII., Figs. 1 and 2.) — -This species measures about 

 Ix inch in expanse. The wings are of a dull buff-colour, traversed by a reddish, nearly straight fascia, from the 

 apical angle of the fore wings to the middle of the inner margin of the hind ones ; the fore wings have also a 

 slight, and often nearly obsolete, dusky, curved line near the base, and a brown subcentral dot ; and all the 

 vsings have a subapical, slender, dusky line, the apical margin itself pink. The caterpillar is grayish, varied 

 with black and white streaks before and behind, and with diamond-shaped patches on the back, formed of black 

 and white lines. It feeds on the sorrel and other low herbs, and the moth appears at the end of June, and is 

 not uncommon. 



' Synonymes. — Phalasna Geometra amataria, Linnaeus ; HUbner; Haworth ; Donovan, 2, pi. 33, fig. 2 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 533. 



Phalcsna vibicaria, Hufnagle. 



EPIONE, Duponchel, Stephens. 

 This genus has the antennse bipectinated to the tips in the males ; the palpi very short ; the fore wings acute 

 at the tips, vsdth the apical margin dilated, and rounded in the middle, and the hind wings deeply sinuated on 

 the apical margin. The caterpillars are very long and slender, attenuated in front, and slightly hairy, and 

 without tubercles ; they feed on diiferent trees ; and the moths appear at the end of the summer. 



Species 1. — Epione apiciaria^ — (Plate LXII., Fig. 3.) — This species varies from 1 to 1-J inch in expanse, 

 and has the wings of a light yellow orange-colour, freckled with red-brown, transverse, minute lines ; a black 

 dot on the middle of each, followed by a slightly-waved, slender, black striga, running to the apex of the fore 

 wings, and followed by a purplish bar ; the fore wings with a slender, deeply-angled, dark line, near the base. 

 The caterpillar is gray, varied with white and black streaks and dots. It feeds on the willow, and the moth 

 appears at the end of July, in damp lanes and woods. 



Synonymfs. — Gecnnetra apiciariajWien. Verz. ; HUbner ; Ha- 

 worth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 534. 



Phalcsna Geom. vespertaria, Donovan, 7, pi. 233, fig. 3, but not 

 of Linnaeus. 



Geometra apicaria, Esper. 

 Geometra apriciaria, Samouelle. 

 Geometra margiiiaria, Villers. 



Species 2. — Epione vespertaria =. — (Plate LXII., Figs. 4, 5.) — This species measures about I J- inch in 

 expanse. It differs from the preceding in having the subapical striga much curved, and running nearly parallel 

 with tlie apical margin of the wing, arising at some distance from the apex, and followed by a broad purphsh or 

 ashy-red bar. The female has the base of the fore wings also ashy-red. The caterpillar is ashy-brown, the 

 anterior segments with straight, white, lateral stripes ; the middle and hind part of the body mottled, with paler 

 and dark markings, and white dots. It feeds on the hazel, and the moth appears in July. It has occurred in 

 Yorkshire and the adjoining counties, but is very rare. 



8 Synonymes. — Phal. Geom. vespertaria, Linnrcus ; Stephens; 

 Wood, fig. 535, but not of Donovan. 



Geometra parallelaria) Wien. Verz. ; HUbner. 



Geometra armaria, Borkhausen. 

 Geometra repandaria, Hufuagle. 



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