78 CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 
half; first pair variously clouded with ash, brown, and black, 
the ordinary stigmata white, between which and the inner mar. 
gin is a black mark like the Greek letter X (chi); second pair of 
the male white, with nervures and margin dusky, of the female 
dusky, with a dark margin, Caterpillar green, with two white 
lines on the sides ; feedson the Aquilegia vulgaris, Sonchus olera- 
ceus, and 8. arvensis, Arctium lappa, Lactuca sativa, &c. Not 
scarce. Cumberland, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Wales, Durham, 
and Wiltshire. 
APATELA (HiiBNER). 
Tae Mitver (A. Leporina, Hiinner) appears the middle of 
May and August. Wings one inch five-twelfths to two-thirds ; 
first pair white, with spots and small waving lines black ; Second 
pair snow white, glossy, and without spots, the nervures some. 
times slightly dusky. Caterpillar with yellowish white hairs, 
and several black tufts on the back; feeds on the alder, willow, 
poplar, birch, elm, &c., in the autumn, Rare. Kent and Surrey, 
Tue HARE (A. Bradyporina, StepnEns) appears the beginning 
of June, Wings one inch five-twelfths to one-half; first pair 
whitish, sprinkled with minute black spots and lines, the hinder 
margin strongly spotted with black; second pair white, witha 
row of black spots on the hinder margin. Caterpillar grass 
green, clothed with long white hairs; feeds on the Prunus 
domestica. Rare. Kent and Surrey. 
THE SycAMORE Tussock (A. Aceris, STEPHENS) appears the 
end of June, Wings one inch one-half to two-thirds ; first pair 
ashy white, with waved black lines, and the anterior stigma 
formed by a black ring; second pair whitish, with dusky ner- 
vures. Caterpillar covered with long yellow hairs, having five 
red and yellow tufts on the back, and a row of white chain-like 
spots edged with black ; feeds on the horse chestnut, maple, oak, 
ash, &c,, in the autumn. Not scarce, Cambridgeshire and Essex. 
ACRONYCTA (Ocusenneimen). 
THE PopLar Grey (A. megacephala, HAworrn) appears in 
May or beginning of June, and in autumn. Wings one inch 
seven-twelfths to two-thirds; first pair ash grey, waved with 
black, with a whitish arch towards the hinder margin, the ante- 
rior stigma ashy, with a black ring ; second pair white, with the 
nervures and margin dusky, the fringe white, with dusky spots. 
Caterpillar, with a large head, hairy, brown, spotted with rusty 
red, having a primrose yellow spot on the hinder segment; feeds 
on the poplar and on willows. Not scarce. Hertfordshire, Cam- 
bridgeshire, and Kent. 
THE Coroner (A. Ligustri, OcHSENHEIMER) appears the end 
of June. Wings one inch five-twelfths to one-half ; first pair 
varied with brown and greenish, slightly waved with black, the 
anterior stigma round, brownish, with a white margin, having @ 
large white coronet-shaped spot near the hinder margin, towards 
