AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 75 



Species 10. — Ptychopoda rubricata ^' — (Plate LXXII., Fig. 14) — Measures 11 lines in expanse, and has 

 all the wings dark purplish-red ; the fore ones with three nearly equidistant dark strigas ; the apical portion 

 rather darker, and the hind ones with two dark strigas. The antennse of the males are strongly setose, appearing 

 bipectinated. Taken at the beginning of August, flying in the North Foreland Meadow, Dover ; also near 

 York, but very rare. 



" Synonvme Geometrarubricala, Wien. Verz. ; HUbner ; Stephens ; 111. Haust. 3, pi. 31, fig. 1 ; Cuitis ; Wood, fig. 722. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXXIII. 



Insrcis. — Fig. 1. Acidalia osseata (the dark cream wave). j Insects. — Fig. 18. Timandra imitaria (the small blood vein). 



„ Fig. 2. Acidalia — var. margine-punctata (the dotted bor- ! „ Fig. 19. Timandra variegata (the subangled wave). 



dered wave). ' „ Fig. 20. Timandra emutaria (the dusky wave). 



„ Fig. 3. Acidalia virgularia (the small dusty wave). „ Fig. 21. Macaria notata (the peacock). 22. Caterpillar. 



„ Fig. 4. Acidalia subsericeata (the satin wave). „ Fig. 23. Macaria alternata (the sharpangled peacock). 



„ Fig. 5. Acidalia aversata (the riband wave). „ Fig. 24. Macaria liturata (the lawny barred angle). 



„ Fig. 6. Acidalia remutata (the false riband wave). ■ 25. Caterpillar. 



,, Fig. 7. Acidalia — var. inornata (the plain wave). „ Fig. 26. Ania emarginata (the scolloped double line). 



„ Fig. 8. Acidalia fumata (the smoky wave). ,, Fig. 27. Eunomos fle.-jula (the beautiful hook tip). 



„ Fig. 9. Acidalia lactata (the pale cream wave). „ Fig. 28. Macaria limhata (the bordered cheque). 



,, Fig. 10. Acidalia — var. flos lactata (the cream wave). „ Fig. 29. Macaria prajatomata (the dingy angled). 



„ Fig. 11. Pcecilophasia marginata (the clouded border). 12. ., Fig. 30. Macaria subrufata (the slender-shaped rufous). 



Var. 13. Caterpillar. 

 Fig. 14. Chlorissa viridata (the small grass emerald). 

 Fig. 15. Chlorissa thymiaria (the common emerald). 



16. Caterpillar. 

 Fig. 17. Chlorissa putataria (the little emerald). 



„ Fig. 31. Macaiia unipunctata (the white spot). 



The whole of the insects figured in this plate are from the cabinet 

 of Mr. Bentley. The caterpillars are from Hiibner and Freyer. 



H.N.H. 



ACIDALIA, Treitschke ; Curtis ; Boisduval. DOSYTHEA, pars, Duponchel. 

 Mr. Stephens has separated, perhaps with too great niin«teness, the following species from those of the 

 preceding genus, with which they agree in the anomalous structure of the hind tibise, furnished with brushes of 

 hair, and destitute of spurs, whilst those of the females have one or two pairs of spurs ; as well as in the pale 

 dull colouring of the wings, which are traversed by slight dusky strigas, more or less liable to become obsolete. 

 From the Ptychopodse, however, they are generally distinguished by their more elongated fore wings, which 

 have the apical margin without dark clouds. 



Species 1. — Acidalia osseata' — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 1) — Measures |- inch in expanse; wings whitish 

 buff, with the subcentral ordinary dark small dot, preceding which are two dark strigse, most conspicuous on 

 the costa of the fore wings, and beyond which are three darker wavy slender strigas, common to all the wings, 

 sometimes nearly obsolete (as in the variety Ph. subochreata, Steph.) ; the margin itself with a row of small 

 oblong black dots. Common at the end of June, in hedges and woods. 



f SvNONYMEs.— PAfl/^na osseata, V/ien. Verz.; Hiibner; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 723. 

 Ptychopoda subochreata, Stephens Cat. (variety). 



Species 2.— Acidalia margine-punctata". — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 2.) — Possibly a variety of the S-fia^,.Cna/a> 

 preceding, from which it differs in being rather larger (measuring 10 lines in expanse), and being destitute of ' ' ' 

 the ferruginous tinge on the costa of the fore wings, and with a distinct row of rounded black dots on the apical 

 margin of all the wings. Taken in the New Forest. 



s Synonyme. — Acidalia margine punctata, Sie^^iens ; Wood, fig. 724. 



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