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less confluent. The caterpillar is described as of a pale-green colour, with a row of black spots on the back, and 
one on each side ; the latter (in the females) with a bright yellow streak beneath. 
It feeds upon various species of Trifolium. 
Found by Mr. Stephens in Kent; in June but very rare according to that author. Mr. Curtis, however, 
states it to be common in marshy places at the end of May, and the beginning and end of June. 
SPECIES 3.—ANTHROCERA TRIFOLII. 
Plate viii. fig. 17. 
Synonymrs.—Sphina Trifolii, Esper, Sph. 2, pl. 34, cont. 9, fig. | Zygena Loti, Haworth *; Curtis. 
4 and 5. Sphinx Lonicere, Esp. ? 
Anthrocera Trifolii, Stephens, Ill. ; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 4, f. 4. 
This species varies in the expansion of the wings from 11 to 15 lines, the fore wings having the ground colour 
of a dark greenish cyaneous colour, and ordinarily with five red spots distinctly visible both above and below ; 
two rather elongated, being placed at the base of the wings, two towards the middle, the anterior one being the 
smaller of the two, and another single spot beyond the middle; the hind wings are red, with the fringe, and a 
rather broad and slightly waved border within the fringe, of a cyaneous colour. Varieties occur with the red 
spots more or less confluent, sometimes even being so united together as to form a single rather broad irregular 
bar. The antennz and body are blue-black. This is the commonest of the five-spotted species found in this 
country, occurring at the end of May and June. It is found in marshy places, and is very widely distributed. 
The larva is described as of a dusky yellow colour, with four rows of black spots ; two on the back and two on 
each side, and as feeding on the trefoil. 
Zycmna Scapios# of Fabricius was described as a British species under, the name of the triple-spotted 
Burnet by Mr. Haworth, from the collection of Mr. Lindegren ; but the specimen in question is supposed, by 
recent authors, to have been a variety of the preceding insect, having the spots confluent. The true Scabiosz has 
the fore wings green, with three elongated approximated red spots at the base of the wings placed thus—2. 1. 
and the antennee and body black. 
SPECIES 4.—ANTHROCERA MELILOTI. 
Plate viii. fig. 18. 
Synonymes.— Sphinx Meliloti, Esper; Ochsenheimer ; Stephens Sphinx Loti, Hiibner, Sph. pl. 17, f. 82. 
(Anthrocera M.); Wood, Ind. Ent., t. 4, f. 25 Curtis, (Zygeena M.) 
This distinct species differs from the others with five spots, in having the wings semi-transparent, and 
of a blackish or blackish-green colour, with two spots placed together at the base, two others near the middle 
placed rather obliquely, and one beyond the middle towards the fore margin. The fore wings are of a more 
uniform width throughout; the hind wings are pale red, with an irregular dark margin, intermediate in its 
width between that of Z. filipendule and Z. Trifolii. Mr. Stephens mentions a variety having all the spots 
* Mr. Stephens refers the Z. Loti of Haworth to the preceding species. Having, however, received from Mr. Haworth specimens of his 
Z. Loti, I am enabled to state that they are identical with the Trifolii of Stephens. 

