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Species 5. — Electra pyraliata ''. — (Plate LXIV., Fig. 23.) — Measures about li or li- inch in expanse; 



fore wings yellow, with three angulateJ strigse, beyond which is a row of nearly obsolete dots, and a slight dark 



dash at the apex, of yellowish brown ; the strigSB are more approximated to the base of the wing and to each other 



than in the allied insects, they are also less angulated and slightl3' undulated; the hind wings are straw- white ; 



■variable in the development of the strigae and row of dots. Caterpillar greenish, with the head and segments of 



the body yellow : it feeds on the whitethorn and other plants ; and the moth appears at the end of July 



frequenting gardens and hedges : it is a common species. 



^ S\'NONVME. — Geometra pyraliata^ Wien. Vei*z. ; Hiibner ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 594 . 

 Geometra populata, Haworth ; nee Linnseus ; Albin, pi. 45, fig. 75, d — g. 



CELMA, Stephens. LARISSA, pars., Curtis. 

 Mr. Stephens has formed Geometra imbutata of Hiibner into a distinct genus, on account of the very 

 squamous palpi ; the fore wings entire and sub-lanceolate, the shortness of the abdomen, and the simple antennae 

 of both sexes ; the females are also smaller than the males. 



Species 1. — Celma imbutata •". — (Plate LXIV., Fig. 24.) — Measures about 1 inch in the expanse of the 

 fore wings, which are of a pale lilac-gray, with a straight oblique striga near the base, followed by a dusky cloud 

 and a broad brown bar before the middle of the wing, which is generally connected behind with another of the 

 same colour beyond the middle, the latter being very irregular on the outer margin, and followed by a bright 

 rosy-brown shade, with a darker cloud terminating in an oblique dark dash running to the tip of the wing, 

 preceded by a pale line and a dark patch on the costa : the apex of the wing grey, spotted with black. Taken 

 in heathy places, in the north of England and Scotland, in August. 



' Synonyme. — Geometra imbutata, Hiibner ; Stephens ; Curtis ; Brit. Ent. pi. 324 ; Wood, fig. 595. 



ANAITIS, DuPONCHEL. APLOCERA, Stephens, olim. 

 This genus has the palpi long and beak-like ; the antennae simple in both sexes ; the abdomen long and 

 slender; the fore wings ovate-lanceolate, with the tip slightly acute, the disc traversed by slender undulating 

 lines, arranged three together in the middle of the wings ; the females larger than the males. 



Species 1 — Anaitis plagiata ^ — (Plate LXIV., Fig. 25.) — Measures from 1^ to 1|. inch in the expanse of 

 the fore wings, which are pale gray, with a slender curved dark line, dentated towards the costa near the base, 

 two fasciae, each formed of three lines across the middle of the wings, followed by a bright brown dash running to 

 the tip of the wings ; the apical portion varied with brown, gray and whitish, with indistinct strigas ; hind wings 

 whitish gray. Taken in June and September, in woods, throughout the country. The caterpillar feeds upon 

 Hypericum perforatum. 



^SrNONYMEs. — Ph. Geom. plagiata, Linnsus ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood; fig. 596? 

 Phal. dupHcata, Fabricius j Donovan, 7 ; pi. 233, fig. 2 ; Harris, Aurelian, pi. 28, f, k. 



Species 2. — Anaitis pr^formata, Hiibner^. — Measures 1^ to 1} inch in expanse ; fore wings less acute 

 and brighter coloured than in the last species, traversed by five bars, the second and fifth rather obscure. Mr. 

 Curtis says he believei he caught a specimen of this moth by Coombe "Wood. Wood's figure seems to represent 



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