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THE APRIL MISELIA. 
ferent kinds of forest trees, such as the ash, elm, 
beech, &c. The moth first appears in the middle 
of April, and there is another hatch in October. 
“ This,” says Mr. Haworth, “ is at once a plentiful, 
well known, and beautiful insect ; but it is remark- 
able that none of our collectors ever take it in the 
winged state, and very rarely in that of a larva. 
The usual mode of prociuing it being by digging 
about the roots of oaks an inch deep for the pupm, 
which are annually found in that manner in con- 
siderable numbers.” The insect is not plentiful in 
Scotland, but is found occasionally throughout the 
southern counties. 
PEACH-BLOSSOM MOTH. 
Tliyatira Batis. 
PLATE XXIII. Fig. 2. 
Plial. Noctua Batis. Linn. ; Don. i. Pi. 33 Noetua Batis, 
Haworth Peach-blossom, Harris . — Tliyatira Batis, Oehsen, 
Curtis, Siq>h, 
Thyatira has the antennas simple in both sexes; 
maxillaB as long as the antennae ; palpi placed con- 
siderably apart, the radical and terminal joints of 
equal length, both of them short, the intermediate 
one very long and thick, the apical one with such 
small scales that it appears nearly naked ; the head 
transverse ; the superior wings moderately wide. 
