NOTODONTINA 



[nkmoria 



Neuration of Nemoria slrigata. 



England, Forfar, W. Ireland, common ; C. and S. Europe, 

 Asia Minor; 6, 7. Larva brown, 5-10 sometimes yellowish or 

 flesh-colour ; 2-5 suffused with pale 

 purplish, with brown dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and spiracular lines; 6-9 

 with pale purplish or whitish V- 

 shaped marks ; head brown : on 

 birch, blackthorn, etc. ; 8-5. 



2. N. viridata, L. 22-24 mm. 

 Face red-brown, fillet white, crown 

 light green. Antennae in $ fili- 

 form. Forewings light green ; costal 

 edge whitish-ochreous ; first line 

 faint, curved ; second nearly straight, 

 whitish ; cilia white, basal half pale 

 greenish, llindwings as forewings, 

 but first line absent ; termen very 

 obtusely angulated. 



England, E. Ireland, local ; 

 Europe, WC. and N. Asia; 5, 6. Larva pale green, with 

 purplish dorsal sometimes connected marks ; subdorsal line 

 whitish ; lateral ridge pale yellow ; head purplish : on liubus, 

 hawthorn, etc. ; 7-9. 



2. Euchloris, Hb. 



Antennae in $ bipectinated, towards apex simple. Palpi 

 shortly rough-scaled. Forewings: 10 out of 9, 11 sometimes 

 anastomosing with 12 or 10. Hindwings : 3 and 4 sometimes 

 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 very shortly anastomosing with cell 

 near base, thence rapidly diverging. 



An extensive genus, principally characteristic of the Indo- 

 Malayan, Australian, and African regions ; but there are also 

 a certain number of species in Europe and North America. 

 The neural variations noted sometimes occur within the same 

 species. 



1. Forewings with brown tornal blotch 



„ without brown blotch . 



2. Face green 



,, not green 



3. Face dull red 



,, yellow-ochroous 



1. E. pustulata, llujh. (bajularia, Schifi.) 27-30 mm. Head 



white, collar green. Forewings green ; costal edge white ; first 



1. 



smaragdaria. 

 . 3. 



3. vernaria. 



4. lactearia. 



