

5g BRITISH MOTHS 



the outermost has the inner edge dentate ; they are most conspicuous towards the costa ; the veins are dotted 

 with black ; a row of black dots arranged in pairs along the apical margin ; hind wings paler, with indications 

 of slight strigEe, and a dusky dot in the middle ; the margin with an interrupted black line. Caterpillar green, 

 with a yellow line on each side; it feeds on the honeysuckle, and the moth" appears in April (June, according to 

 Stephens). 



LoBOPHOBA cosT^STRiGATA, Haworth, Curtis, Stephens, Wood, fig. 644, is regarded by Mr. Stephens as 

 being probably the female of the last described insect, measuring 1^ inch in expanse, with the wings ashy- white, 

 with about five abbreviated, geminated, equidistant strigse, chiefly on the costa, which are occasionally nearly 

 obsolete, and sometimes reach nearly to the hinder margin. Taken near Westerham in Kent, in July. 



^ Synonymes. — Geometra lohulata, Hiibner; Treitschke : Curtis. 

 Phalana dentistrigata, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 643. 



Species 3. — Lobophora viretata'^ — Measures 13 lines in expanse of the fore wings, which are greenish, 

 fading to yellowish, with black clouds and fasciolas, barred with yellow and black equidistant strigae, formed of 

 clouds and dots of black, and with a row of geminated black dots on the margin ; cilia ashy and brown ; hind 

 winofs ashy, unspotted. The caterpillar is greenish-yellow, spotted with reddish-brown on the back ; it feeds on 

 the privet, and the moth appears in June, occurring in the woods of Kent, Norfolk, and Essex. 

 *= Synonyme. — Geometra viretata^ HxihriGv \ Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 646. 

 Plialmna trinotata, Donovan, vol. xiv., pi. 499, fig. 11. 



Species 4. — Lobophora bdpestbata ^ — (Plate LXVIII., Fig. 16) — Measures 1 J inch in expanse ; fore 

 wings white, with five waved brown strigae, the first angulated near the base of the wings, the fourth irregularly 

 lobed beyond the middle, and the fifth subapical, sinuated within ; the apical margin slightly ashy, with a gemi- 

 nated row of black dots ; hind wings with two deep brown waved striga beyond the middle, and a marginal 

 streak of the same colour. Taken in Devonshire, in June, but very rare. 



'^ Synonymes Geometra rupestrata, Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; Hiibner ; Treitschke ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 645. 



SECTION B. — Hind wings of the males small, with large lobes. Hind tibicB with two pairs of spurs. 

 Species 5. — Lobophora hexapteratap — (Plate LXVIII., Fig. 18) — Measures from 13 to 15 lines in 

 expanse of the fore wings, which are ashy-brown, with the base and a broad solid fascia beyond the middle, of 

 dark brown ; the middle of the wings paler, with irrorations or pale strigs most evident on the costa, and with 

 the apical margin irregularly brown. These lines and markings, however, are very variable, those on the centre 

 of the wing being sometimes evanescent, in others they are completely atomose ; hind wings white, with more or 

 less distinct strigae towards the margin. Female destitute of the winglet. Taken in Kent, and various other 

 widely distant places, in June. 



' Synonymes. — Phalana hexapterata, Fabricius; Donovan, 6, pi. 192 ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, tig. 647. 



Phalcena halterata, Hufnagle. 



Species 6. — Lobophora sexalisata^ — (Plate LXVIII., Figs. 19, 20) — Measures from 9 to 11 lines in 

 expanse of the fore wings, which are ashy brown, with the base and three undulated strigae, the basal one before 

 Jixa/a^ t^'s middle of the wing, beyond a broad striga, the second brownish and broad ; in the middle of which, towards 

 «'-Z> the costa, is a black subocellated spot; the third forms a brownish fimbria, in which is a whitish undulated 



striga ; hind wings darker-coloured than in the last species, with a darker subapical striga and fimbria. The 

 caterpillar is pale green, with a yellow line on each side, above which is a white one ; it feeds on sallow, and 

 the moth appears in June and August. Taken in the woods of Surrey and Hampshire, but rare. 



' Synonymes. — Geometra sexalisata, iliibnet; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 648. 

 Geometra sexalata, Borkbausen. 



