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LARGE EMERALD-MOTH. 
The catei'plllar lins six pectoral, two abdominal, 
and two anal feet. It is green, with a yellow line 
on each side and reddish warts on the back ; and 
feeds on the elm, lime, alder, birch, &c. The moth 
appears in the end of July, frequenting woods and 
meadows, but is not very frequently met ivith in 
any part of Britain. It has, however, been found 
in Askam Bogs Yorkshire, in Kent, Surrey, near 
Reading, in Warn'ickshire, and many other parts of 
England, and on two or three occasions near Rae- 
hills in Dumfries-shire, as well as at Cramond near 
Edinburgh. As a genus, Hipparchus is distinguished 
by the following characters : antennce pectinated in 
the males almost to the apex, the pectinations 
ciliated ; antenna of the female simple ; proboscis 
spii-al, much shorter than the antenna ; palpi pro- 
jecting nearly in a horizontal direction, and approxi- 
mating at the tip ; the radical joint very short, the 
second very long, the terminal one lanceolate, free 
from hairs, and somewhat pointed; upper wings 
covering the under pair when at rest, the latter 
with the hinder margin dentate. 
