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BRITISH MOTHS 





Species 2. — Bapta pdnctata ? — (Plate LXXL, Figs. 8, 9)— Measures about li inch in expanse : wings 

 snow-white, the fore ones with the ordinary central dark dot, a small mark nearly opposite to this on the inner 

 margin of the wing, a subapical fascia not quite reacliing to the costa, and a dark patch on the apical margin, 

 which has a row of black dots ; the hind wings are slightly atoraose, and have a submarginal, dusky, almost 

 evanescent fascia ; the fringe of the fore wings ashy, that of the hind ones white. The caterpillar is careen, but 

 grey beneath, with a darker line on each side, and with the head and dorsal patches of brown. It feeds on the 

 species of Prunus, and the moth appears in June, frequenting woody places, but it is rare. 



y SyN0NVME3. — PhaliEna punctata, Fabricius ; Stewart; Turtou. 



Phalcena rubeculata, Haworth. 



Geomelra temerata, Wien. Vera. ; Hubner, 6g. 91. 







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APLOCERA, Stephens. 

 As restricted by Mr. Stephens in his Illustrations, this genus is distinguished by its perfectly simple antennsB 

 in both sexes ; the wings large, entire along the apical margin, with the disk thickly-marked with waved lines ; 

 the palpi are short and slender, very squamose ; the spiral tongue rather short ; the abdomen slender. 



Species 1.— Aplocera ciESiATA^— (Plate LXXL, Fig. 10)— Measures from \\ to 1^ inch in expanse, and 



has the fore wings brownish, with a dark brown, broad, dentated fascia across the middle, edc^ed with white 



behind, and which is bifid towards the costa, bearing the ordinary black central dot in the furcation ; the base of 



the wing is traversed by several slender dark undulating strigse, as well as the space beyond the middle, which 



is also marked with a waved white subapical striga, and the apical margin with a row of dots, placed in pairs ; 



hind wings brownish, slightly strigose, and with a pale subapical striga ; margin dotted with black, as in the 



fore wings. Taken in the north of England, in June, frequenting old walls. (Mr. Haworth gives the end of 



February, and the neighbourhood of Peckham, as its time and place of capture.) 



* Synonymes. — Geometra ccesiata, Wien. Vera. ; Hubner ; Haworth ; Stephens. 

 PhaloEna infrequentaia, Haworth (variety). 



Species 2. — Aploceea plavicincta^ — (Plate LXXL, Fig. 11) — Measures from If to 1^ inch in expanse, 

 with the wings gray, thickly irrorated, with undulating and dentated dark lines, and with four clay-coloured 

 fasciffi, three of which are placed before the middle of the wing, and the fourth beyond, the space behind which is 

 paler, but much clouded with a subapical, waved, whitish striga, bearing fulvous dashes directed inwards ; the 

 apical margin with black dots, arranged in pairs ; hind wings pale grayish, with a subapical, waved, dusky 

 fascia. Taken in Cumberland, in June. This may be a fine variety of the preceding species. 



• SvNoNYME. — Geometra flavicincta, Hiibner ; Stephens, 111. H., 3, pi. 30, fig. 3. 



EMMELESIA, Stephens; MELANIPPE, Curtis. 

 These insects have the palpi short and horizontal, with the tip subglobose ; the spiral tongue rather long ; 

 the antennae simple in both sexes, or sometimes pubescent in the males ; the wings are entire along the apical 

 margin, generally of a pale colour, with undulated dark and light strigae ; when at rest they form a depressed 

 triangle. The caterpillars are long, slender, and smooth, and feed upon low plants. Jlr. Curtis has proposed 

 two sections in the genus, some of the species possessing two pairs of spurs, and some only one pair to the 

 hind tibiae. 



