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fascia. Taken in marshy places near Croydon, Surrey ; Horning, Norfolk ; and Bristol ; towards the end of June. 

 The caterpillar is grayish, with pale dorsal and lateral streaks ; it feeds on the great Plantain. The transforma- 

 tions of this insect are beautifully figured by Lyonnet, in his Posthumous Researches, pi. 32. 



" SYNOtri'MEs. — Gfometra aurorariaj HUbner ; Hawortli ; Curtis, I Geometra variegata, Fabricius. 



pi. 523 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 685. Geometra sanguinaria, Hiibner. 



Pyralis auroralis, Wien. Yen. I Phalcena muricatay Hufaagle. 



MINOA, Treitschke. MINOA AND ODEZIA, Boisduval. 

 The palpi are minute and remote ; the antennre simple but robust in the males ; the spiral tongue rather 

 long ; the wings carried erect when at rest ; entire, rounded at the angles, and destitute of markings ; the 

 posterior tibias in both sexes are furnished with two pairs of spurs. The perfect insects fly by day, amongst 

 ferns, in open places, in woods, &c. The caterpillars are naked, and attenuated in front ; those of the second 

 species are, however, inflated in the middle, and rather pilose. 



Species 1. — Minoa ch^rophyllata " — -(Plate LXXI., Fig. 4) — Measures from 1 to 1^ inch in expanse, 

 and has the wings sooty black, except a small apical streak of white along the tip of the fore ones. The cater- 

 pillar is obscure green, with a paler head ; it feeds on Chasrophyllum sylvestre, and the moth appears in June, 

 in open places in woods, in great plenty.* 



^ Synonymes. — Pkaiana chterophgUata^ LinDxus ; Harris ; Aure- 

 lian, pi. 30, fig. o ; Donovan, 7, pi. 253, fig. 4 ; Haworth ; Ste- 

 phens ; Wood, fig. 686. 



PhaltEna atrata, Linnwus ; Fauna Su. 

 Tanwjra chwrophyUata, Duponchcl. 

 Odezia chisrophyllata, Boisduval. 



Species 2. — Minoa euphorbiata ■" — (Plate LXXI., Figs. 5,6) — Measures about |^ inch in expanse, and 



has the wings entirely ashy-brown, slightly tinged with luteous. The caterpillar is yellowish-green, spotted 



with black and white, and with a dark line down the back, and a reddish head ; it feeds on several species of 



Euphorbia, and the moth appears at the end of May, in woody places, and is far from rare. 



" Synonymes. —PAatena euphorbiata, Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; 

 Donovan, 5, pi. 153, fig. 1 ; HUbner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, 



fig. 637. 



Geometra murinaia^ Scopoli, Villars. 



Phalisna fuscata, Hufnagle. 



Phalcena sordiata, Haworth (olim) ; Villars and Mus. Linn. 



BAPTA, Stephens; MACARIA, p., Curtis ; ACIDALIA, p., Bdv. 

 The antennse are short and simple in both sexes ; the palpi short and ascending, obtuse at the tip ; the 

 spiral tongue long; the thorax and abdomen rather robust; the wings large, entire, and rounded along the 

 apical margin, and of a white colour, varied with black markings. The caterpillars are robust, smooth, and 

 entire. 



Species 1. — Bapta bimaculata^ — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 7) — Measures from 1 to If inch in expanse, and 

 has the wings snowy-white, with the costa and apical margin slightly luteous ; the former with two black dots, 

 and a minute black speck near the middle of the wing, towards the costa; beyond which is a shghtly-defined 

 brownish striga, which runs across all the wings. Taken about the beginning of June, in woods and lanes, dn^tia, 

 especially round the north of London, but rare. '«n^nWA, 



• Synonymes. — Phaltena Geometra bimaculata, Villars ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 688. 

 Geometra thminala, Wien. Verz. ; Hiibner. 



* Many rears ago my friend Tcmpleton shewed me a black Geometridcous moth, much larger than M. cha;rophyllata, which he had 

 captured on one of the mountains in Ireland, and of which at the time I made a sketch, but which I have unfortunately mislaid. I have seen 

 nothing like the insect in any collection I have examined. 



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