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BRITISH MOTHS 



with a white, interrupted, waved line. It has been taken occasionally in Yorkshire. The latter has the wings 

 ashy, with three geminated striga and a costal spot of brown ; between the base and middle bar is a white 

 fascia, formed of four rounded spots, united together and edged with black. This insect has occurred at 

 Wisbeach, and also in Devonshire. 



" Synonvme. — PhalcBna unilobataflia.^orth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 564. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXIV. 



Insec 



—Fin. I. Polyphasia marmorata (the marbled carpet). 

 Fig. 2. Polypbasia centum-notata (the common marbled 



carpet). 

 Figr. 3. Polypbasia immanata (a variety of the preceding). 

 Fig. 4. Steganolopbia pruuata (the clouded carpet). 5. 



The Caterpillar. 6. The Chrysalis. 

 Fig. 7. Lampropteryx sutfumata (the water carpet). 

 Fig. 8. Lampropteryx badiata (the shoulder stripe). 



The Caterpillar. 

 Fig. 9. Anticlea Berbeiata (the raspberry^ carpet). 



The Caterpillar. II. The Chrysalis. 



The Cocoon. 

 Fig. 13. Anticlea rubidata (the flame). 

 Fig. 14. Anticlea sinuat.a (the royal mantle). 

 Fig. 15. Anticlea derivata (the streamer). 17. 



Caterpillar. 



16. 



10. 

 12. 



The 



Insects. — Fig. 18. Electra comitata (the dark spinach). 



„ Fig. 19. Electra populata (the poplar). 20. The Cater- 

 pillar. 



,, Fig. 21. Electra spinachiata (the spinach). 



,, Fig. 22. Electra testata (the chevron). 



,, Fig. 23. Electra pyraliata (the baiTed straw). 



,, Fig. 24. Celma imbutata (the Manchester treble bar). 



,f Fig. 25. Aoailis plagiata (the slender treble bar). 



,, Fig. 26. Siona dealbata (the black vein). 

 Plants. — Fig. 27. Galium sp. 



All the moths in this plate are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley, 

 with \he exception of Plagiata, Iramanata, Spinachiata, Testata, 

 Pyraliata, Derivata, Sutfumata, and Ruptata, from fine specimens 

 presented to me by Mr, Doubleday. The caterpillars are from 

 Hubner.— H. X. H. 



POLYPHASIA, Stei'iiexs. ELECTRA, r., Clrtis. 

 The insects of the genus formed under this name by Mr. Stephens, are extremely variable in their charac- 

 teristic markings. The antennse are simple in both sexes ; the fore wings are triangular, and comparatively 

 larger and weaker than in the preceding species, with the apical margin entire ; the palpi are porrected into a 

 sliort acute beak, directed obliquely upwards : and the caterpillars are slender, smooth, and with two short 

 tubercles on the terminal segment of the body. By the continental authors, the different species appear to be 

 confounded into one, whilst Mr. Stephens separates them into eight ; although in his Catalogue several of them 

 were indicated as prob.xble varieties of the others, which we consider the more natural arrangement. 



Species 1. — Polyphasia marmorataP. — (Plate LXIV., Fig. 1.) — This species varies from I to JJ^ on the 



expanse of the fore wings, which are clouded with ashy and ferruginous, and have a broad central fascia of 



white, more or less atomose, and edged with blackish brown ; the outer margin much produced, and acutely 



angulated ; the apical portion of the wing ashy, tinged with ferruginous and brown clouds, through which runs 



Jtryrnet^timti^ ^^ irregular interrupted white waved line. It is extremely variable in the colour of the ground of the wings, 



Avt. and in the intensity of the markings. Not common, although widely dispersed ; although more especially found 



in the woods of Kent. 



P Synonymes. — /"Aate/ja mai'mora/a, Fabricius; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 575. 

 Phulana omicronata, Donovan, Vol. I,i, pi. 510, fig. 1 (variety). 



P. concinxata, Stcph. ; AVood, fig. 576 (given in Syst. Cat. as a variety of the preceding), has the fore 

 wings ashy-gray clouded with black, and with an unsolid whitish fascia across the middle, acutely dentated on 

 the outer margin, and with a wliite angulated subapical striga ; the disc with a large black dot. Taken in 

 Scotland, and probably identical with 



P. boreata, Curtis (Brit. Ent., fol. 603), of which the fore wings have the narrow ferruginous fascia at 



