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LAPPET-MOTH. 
leaf MTth a serrated border. Hence one of the 
species was named by Geofiroy lafeuille morte. The 
anteimse are very short, recurved, and deeply bipec- 
tinated nearly in a similar manner in both sexes : 
the palpi very hairy and prolonged into a kind of 
snout, the second joint longer than the others. 
Maxillm are obseiTable, but they are very minute. 
The genus includes several European insects, but 
that figured on the adjoining plate is the only one 
satisfactorily ascertained to inhabit Britain. The 
surface of the wings is of a rusty-bromi colour, 
varying considerably in shade, the extremity slightly 
glossed with violet ; the upper pair with three 
oblique waved blackish lines, and a black spot in 
the centre. The hinder wings are generally un- 
spotted ; at times, however, they are marked with 
faint transverse streaks similar to those on the 
upper pair. The body is of the same colour as the 
wings ; the stalk of the antemue, the palpi, and the 
tarsi, of a deep bluish-black. 
The caterpillar is of large size wiien full grown, 
sometimes measuring nearly foiu- inches in length, 
and very variable in colom. The prevailing hue 
is dusky-grey, inclining to ash-grey, with two blue 
spots on the neck surrounded with black, and 
having a black angular mark in the middle. The 
membranous legs and the under side of the body 
are ferruginous, the latter spotted with black. Each 
segment is furnished with a fleshy appendage which 
hangs from the side, and there is a dorsal tuber- 
cle on the penultimate joint. (PI. xviii. fig. 4.) 
