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beneath, and the strong central fascia more angulated on the inner margin, and less so on the outer margin : 

 tlie hind wings are also more distinctly fasciated. The caterpillar is long, slender, swollen behind the slightly 

 notched head, and with the extremity of the body rather thicker and rugose. 



Species 1. — Steganolophia prdnata ^ — (Plate LXIV., Figs. 4, 5, 6.) — This Ijandsome insect measures 

 from 14- to 1^ inch in expanse. The base of tlie fore wings orange brown, with a darker slender waved striga, 

 ^ ^ followed by a clouded orange bar edged on each side with a whitish line, and very much angulated towards the 



^,2. hinder margin; then follows a very broad, brown, irregular bar bearing a slender, dark, parallel streak; and 



the extremity of the wing is marked with conical dark spots and a marginal patch of brown, as in Harpalyce 

 Silaceata, to which it is nearly allied, as arranged by Mr. Haworth : the hind wings are pale-brown and strigose. 

 The caterpillar is pale-greenish, with brownish markings on the back : it feeds on the currant and gooseberry, 

 as well as on various trees, and the moth appears in July and August in lanes and gardens. It is a widely 

 dispersed but local insect. 



-*' Synonymes. — P/ia/6?7ia Geome/ra prwnaia, Linna?us; Ftibricius; I Haworth; Stephens; "Wood, fig. 581. 

 Donovan; 7, pi. 233, fig. 1 ; Harris, Exposition 30, pi. 8, fig. 1; j Ci(iarm i?/6fS'arm,Boisduval. 



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LAMPROPTERYX, Stephens. CIDARIA, p., Boisduval. ELECTRA, p., Curtis. 

 These insects have the wings glossy, and the apical margins obscurely dentated, the disk of the fore ones with 

 a central fascia, and an oblique black dash at the apex : the palpi are very short, and scarcely visible from above ; 

 the antenna; of the males rather strongly ciliated, and the caterpillars smooth, cvlindrical, and naked. The first 

 species in its markings approaches closely to Steg. pruuata, whilst S. badiata has a very different habit. 



Species 1.- — Lampropteryx suffumata '. — (Plate LXIV., Fig. 7.) — This species measures about li inch 



/^, ■ in expanse of the fore wings, which are of a red-brown at the base, followed by a pale bar clouded with brown, 



5^"^""^^^ ^'^yt'"'^ which is a broad, rich brown bar irregularly toothed on both margins, followed by a slender whitish line ; 



"'■^ the extremity of the wing varied with brown and white shades and patches ; the hind margin of the hind wings 



dusky brown. This is not a common species, but is widely dispersed. Taken in April and July. 



' Synonyme Ph. Geometra siiffumata, Wien. Vera. ; H'ubner ; Haworth ; Stepliens ; Wood, fig. 582. 



J/t.Jt' {/(t-i. ■ Species 2. — Lampropteryx p ceata, Stepliens; Wood, Fig. 583. — Measures li inch in expanse; fore 



wings " very glossy, of a deep uniform pitchy-brown, with a deeper broad central fascia in -which is a black spot ; 

 its outer margin lobate, with the central lobe obtuse and entire ; towards the apex of the wing is an interrupted 

 striga composed of white spots, and at the apex is an oblique white streak." — Stepliens. Found near Newcastle, 

 and also in Yorkshire. 



Species 3. — Lampropteryx badiata". — (Plate LXIY., Figs. 8, 16.) — This species measures rather more 



than 1 inch in expanse of the fore wings, which are of a buff colour, with the base and apex purplish brown ; the 



/tM^cic<^o former with a curved, dark fascia at the base, followed by a nearly straight one edged witli a purplish brown 



jSaitc^^-'^ line, and followed by a pale space, which is succeeded by a deeply waved bar formed of several slender 



dark lines, beyond which is a dark buff space; tlie apical portion purplish brown, and with a dark oblique dash 



at the apex. Hind wings slightly strigose. The caterpillar is dirty green, and dotted on the back. The sides 



with a pale stripe, head and feet yellowish. It feeds on the wild rose ; and the moth appears at the beginning 



of April and again in the middle of the summer, and is common. 



"Synonymes. — Geomc<?-n inrfia^n, Wien. Verz.; Hiibnev ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 584. 

 Phalwna berberala, Donovan; vol. 14, pi. 493, tig. 1. 



