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Upper Side. The antennse are pectinated. This moth is totally of a dark red brown colour ; 

 but toward the fan edges, which are indented, the wing is ornamented with a dark purplish gloss : 

 two faintish serpentine bars cross each wing. In its sitting position it puts the edges of the 

 superior wings together over its back, in such an uncommon manner that they appear like the 

 comb of a cock, while the under wings remain expanded. 



The caterpillar, at (Z>), feeds on black and white-thorn, and continues in that state during 

 winter ; it is full fed about the latter end of May, when it makes a large spinning, wherein it 

 changes to the chrysalis, seen at (c), and the moth appears in July. 



Expansion of the wings 21- 



-31 inches. 



The English name of this insect is given to it in allusion to the curious appen- 

 dages at the sides of the body of this caterpillar, and its specific name in reference to 

 the great resemblance of the moth, when sitting, to a withered oak leaf; the porrected 

 palpi serving to imitate the stalk of the leaf. The moth is far from common, but it 

 occasionally occurs in certain localities in great profusion, as for instance, in the fens 

 of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, where I have seen considerable numbers. 



MISELIA OXYACANTH^E. THE EALING'S GLORY MOTH. 



Plate XLIII. fig. d—f. 

 Synonyms. 



Phalsena (Noctua) Oxyacanthee, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 852. Donovan Brit. Ins. v. pi. 165. 



Wilkes' Brit. Moths, pi. 27. Alhin's Insects, pi. 14. fig. 19. a— d. 

 Miselia Oxyacanthee, Ochsenheimer, Treitschke, Curtis, Stephens. 



Upper Side. The antennse are like threads. The superior wings are brown, prettily 

 marbled with a darker colour, enlivened with veins or waved lines of a lightish green. The 

 thorax and abdomen are crested, of a lightish brown ; as are the inferior wings. 



The caterpillar is taken by beating the white-thorn about the middle of May. It changes 

 to the chrysalis state about the end of the same month, and the moth appears in September. 

 The caterpillar is shewn at (e), which is remarkable for a protuberance on the rump. The 

 chrysalis, seen at (/), is of a darkish brown colour. The moth seen at (d) is seldom taken in 

 that state. 



Expansion of the wings nearly two inches. 



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HIMERA PENNARIA. THE NOVEMBER MOTH. 



Plate XLIII. fig. g—i. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Geometra) Pennaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 861. Donovan Brit. Ins. 8. pi. 287. 

 fig. 2. Wilkes' Brit. Moths fy Butt. pi. 79. (The October Moth.) 

 Himera Pennaria, Duponchel, Stephens. 



Upper Side. The antennse are pectinated. The head, thorax, abdomen, and wings are of 

 a lightish yellow orange : the superior wings having a very broad bar of a deeper colour, crossing 

 each. 



The caterpillars are very plentiful on the oaks in Norwood, and are got by beating the trees : 

 they appear about the colour of the bark of the twigs, and are full of sharp-pointed protuberances, 

 as at (h). When full fed, which is about the end of September, they spin up in the leaves, and 





