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caterpillar is pale-green, with pale lines at the sides. It feeds on various trees in gardens in the spring, and is 



very destructive to the crops of fruit, hy devouring the young blossom buds. Kollar* has given a very long and 



most interesting account of its habits, and has suggested a plan for its destruction, which appears both 



ingenious and practicable. The moth appears in November, December, and January, and is very common. 



r Synokvmes. — Phaltena Geometra brumala, Linnajus ; Hubner ; i Cheimalobia vulgaris, Stephens, Cat. ; Haworth, olim. 

 Haworth ; Curtis ; Stephens, 111. ; Wood, fig. 640, male and female. I Phalana hyemata, Hufnagle. 



Species 2. — Cheimatobia rdpicapraria^. — (Plate LXVIII., Fig. 11.) — The male measures from 13 to 



15 lines in expanse of the fore wings, which are grayish-brown, with a broad dark bar across the middle, the 



edges being darkest and subcrenated, narrowed behind, and bearing a dark dot in the middle. The hind wings 



whitish, with the ordinary central dark dot preceding a nearly evanescent striga ; the edges with brown spots ; 



the antennae in the males are bipectinated. The female has short, rudimental, whitish ashy wings, with a dark 



bar towards the apex, and a slender striga across the hind ones. The caterpillar is greenish, with whitish lines 



and margins to the segments ; it feeds on the wild plum, and the moths appear in January and February, the 



males flying about hedge-rows ; it is a rather common insect. 



' Synonymes. — Geometra rupicapraria, Wien. Vera. ; Hubner; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 641, a and n. 

 Geometra primaria, Haworth ; S.imouelle. 



LOBOPHORA, Stephens ; Curtis ; Bdv. AMATHIA, Duponchel. 

 The palpi in this interesting group are short, and bent upwards in front of the face ; the antennae are 

 setaceous, with short hairs scattered over the joints ; the abdomen slender ; the fore wings entire, spread 

 horizontally when at rest, and marked with undulated lines ; and the hind ones furnished at the base in the 

 males with a short lobe or winglet, variable in size, the species in which it is the smallest being only armed with 

 a pair of spurs to the hind pair of tibia. The caterpillars feed on trees : they are smooth, with the head flat, 

 and last segment bifid. 



SECTION A. — Hind wings of the males with a small lobe. Hind tibice with one pair of spurs. 

 Species 1. — Lobophora polycommata^ — (Plate LXVIII., Fig. 13 (the caterpillar), and 17) — Measures 

 nearly 1^ inch in expanse of the fore wings, which are pale grayish-brown, with irregular waved strigse, of a 

 darker colour, several of which, near the base of the wings, are united by a dark dash towards the hind 

 margin, a broad bar of dark chesnut-brown across the centre, bearing a pale patch on the costa, and varied by 

 the dark longitudinal strigse on the veins ; the outer margin towards the costa is deeply angulated ; beyond this 

 is a subapical fascia, angulated towards the costa, and formed of pale streaks ; the veins black, as they are also 

 at the apical margin, each bearing two black dots. Hind wings pale, with two slender indented strigas and 

 marginal black dots. Taken near Dartford in Kent, in April, but very rare. The caterpillar is green, with a 

 yellowish line on each side, and a duller-coloured back ; it feeds on the honeysuckle. 



Obs. — I have omitted to refer to figure 12, drawn from the British Museum specimen, as it apparently ^ y^ 

 belongs, from its pectinated antenns, neither to the present genus nor species. /*^' ■^''^ 



* SvNOSYMEs. — Geometra polycommata, Wien. Verz. ; Hubner; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 81 ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 642. 



Species 2. — Lobophora lobulata'' — (Plate LXVIII., Figs. 14, 15) — Measures about li inch in expanse 

 of the fore wings, which are whitish-gray, with about five very obsolete, undulated, brownish strigse, of which 



* See Miss Loudon's translation, published by the publisher of this work. 

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