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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXVI. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Euthalia miata (the autumn green carpet). 

 ,, Fig. 2. Euthalia psittacata (the red-gieen carpet). 

 ,, Fig. 3. Eutlialiaiuipluviata (the May high-flyer). 



4. The Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 5. Euthalia elutata (the July high-flyer). 



6. A variety. 7. The Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 8. A remarkable variety of the preceding species 



(honidaria). 

 ,, Fig. 9. Pliihalaptcryx tersata (the Fern). 

 ,, Fig. 10. Phibalapteryx vitalbata (the small waved ambre). 

 „ Fig. 11. Phibalapteryx lignata (tlie oblique carpet). 



Insects. — Fig. 12. Phibalapteryx lineolata (the oblique striped). 



,, Fig. 13. Phibalapteryx angustata (the narrow bordered 



carpet). 

 ,, Fig. 14. Lozogramma petraria (the brown silver lines). 

 ,, Fig. 15. Scotosia vetulata (the brown scollop). 



16. The Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 17. Scotosia sparsaria (the small scollop). 

 „ Fig. 18. Scotosia rhamnata (the dark umbre). 

 The whole of the moths in this plate are from fine specimens in 

 the cabinet of Mr. Bentley. The caterpillars are from Hiibner. 



H. N. H. 



EUTHALIA, Stephens (III.) YPSIPETES, Stephens (Cat.). 

 These insects have the antennse simple in both sexes ; the palpi long and beak-like ; the thorax with a bifid 

 crest ; the abdomen very long, and tufted at the tip in the males ; the wings are large and entire, with green 

 markings, and -very irregular transverse fascite. The caterpillars are slender, slightly pilose, destitute of 

 tubercles, and marked with longitudinal stripes. They have a peculiar vaulting flight at a considerable height, 

 whence some of them are termed high-flyers by collectors. 



Species 1. — Euthalia miata ■■. — (Plate LXVI., Fig. I.) — This species measures from 12 to 15 lines in 

 expanse, and has the fore wings greenish-ash, and with a fascia at the base and another across the middle, darker 

 coloured, as is also tlie apical margin, which bears an obscure undulated whitish striga ; the margin of all the 

 wings with a row of minute black dots, in pairs; hind wings whitish, with a brown central dot, and a sub- 

 marginal striga of darker colour ; variable in colour, the green changing to a fulvescent tinge. The caterpillar 

 pale green, with red dots. It feeds on the bramble ; and the moth appears in September. This insect is 

 scarcely strictly congeneric with the true high-flyers, and is a common species. 



■ Synonyhes. — Phalana Geometra miata, Linnjeus ; Fabricius ; Albin, pi. 60, fig. 86, e — h; Donovan, 14, pi. 497, fig. 3; Stephens; 

 Wood, fig. 608. Phalcena luctuata, Fabricius. 



Species 2. — Euthalia PSITTACATA^ — (Plate LXVI., Fig. 2.) — This species varies from 12 to 14 lines in 

 expanse ; fore wings clouded with green and red, with black undulations ; the base with a fascia, and the middle 

 with a broad bar of a greener tinge ; beyond which, on the costa, and near the inner angle, is a paler blotch, 

 which terminates in pale waved lines, often followed by a whitish undulated striga ; the margin with a geminated 

 row of black dots ; hind wings brown, obscurely strigose. The perfect insect appears, like the last, in September, 

 and frequents woods. 



• Synonymf5. — Geometra psittacata, Wien. Verz. ; Hiibner ; | Phalana siterata, Hufnagle. 

 Fabricius; Haworlh ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 609. I Phalmna rubroviridala, Donovan, 14, pi. 485, fig. 3. 



Species 3. — Euthalia impluviata'. — (Plate LXVI., Figs. 3, 4.) — This species measures about li inch 

 in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a grayish brown, whitisli or ashy colour, sometimes with a green 

 tinge, with an oblique blackish streak near the base, a continuous fascia before the middle, often clouded, and 

 with straightish edges, followed by a whitish space and a subapical one of brown — the latter not solid, with the 

 edges more or less dentated and often divided into two parts ; at the apex are also two oblique black lunules : 

 the hind wings ashy or brownish, and scarcely strigose. The species is variable both in the tints and distinctness 

 of the strigse. The caterpillar is reddish-brown, with pale lines on the back and sides, and a reddish head : it feeds 

 on the birch and hazel, and the moth appears at the end of May, flying in damp evenings and frequenting the 



