AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 81 



Species 1. — Ania emarginata ^ — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 26) — Measures 10 or 11 lines in expanse ; wings 

 pale fulvous in the male, reddish in the female, with two somewhat repanded brownish strigse, between which 

 is a black dot ; the first striga is incurved, the second crossing the hind wings much beyond the middle ; and 

 between these is often a brownish fascia, especially in the females ; a third nearly obsolete striga runs along the 

 apical margin of the wings. The female is smaller and darker-coloured than the male. Taken in July and 

 August, in hedges and woods, and rather common. The caterpillar is ochreous, with a brown dorsal line ; it 

 feeds on the bindweed. 



' Synonvmes. — Phaltvna Geometra emarginata, Linnipus ; Hiib- 

 ner ; Hawortb ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 749. 

 PhalcB7ia demandata, Fabricius. 

 Phalana quadripunctata, Donovan, 14, pi. 493, fig. 3. 



PhaltBna erosaia, Hufnagle. 



Phalisna dimidiata, Hawortb (female). 



PhalcBna rumigerata, Donovan, 14, pi. 493, fig. 2 (female). 



Species 2. — Ania limbata s. — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 28) — Measures 13 lines in expanse ; wings pale and ^^ ?■ 



angulated, and reticulated with ferruginous, and with a broad, apical, ferruginous border. Taken in Scotland. ^a<.^-> /' 

 In Mr. Chant's collection. 



e SvNoNYME. — Phalana limbata, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 748. 



ENNOMOS, Treitschke. FALCARIA, Haworth. AVENTIA, Duponchel, Bdv. 

 As the Phalsena flexula of Fabricius was given by Treitschke as the type of his genus Ennomos, (although the 

 major part of the genus was composed of our Thorn moths), Mr. Stephens retained the generic name for that 

 particular species ; other late authors have, however, given the name of Ennomos to the Thorns, and a distinct 

 new generic name to P. flexula. I have, however, followed in Mr. Stephens's steps, as they are in accordance 

 with the principle I have so repeatedly insisted upon in my writings. The antenna in the males are slightly 

 pubescent ; the palpi rather long and prominent ; the wings expanded in repose, the fore ones deeply emarginata 

 near the tip, and the hind ones rounded ; the hind tibiffi are incrassated, but furnished with two pairs of long 

 spurs. The caterpillar is sublacertine, depressed, fimbriated at the sides, and furnished with a dorsal tubercle ; 

 it feeds on lichens. 



Species 1. — Ennomos flexula '^ — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 27) — Measures about 1^ inch in expanse ; ashy 

 gray, thickly irrorated with brown scales, the fore ones with two whitish, flexuous strigse, one before and the 

 other beyond the middle, bordered with brown on each side, and having two brown dots between them ; hind 

 wings paler, with a whitish striga, similarly bordered, and a central brown dot. Caterpillar green, with the 

 neck, a raised tubercle, the acuminated tail, head and feet all reddish. The perfect insect appears in July, 

 in woods, but is far from common. 



•* Synonvmes. — Phalana flexula, Fabricius ; Hiibner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 750, 

 Phalana Geometra sinwata, Villers. 



