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52 BRITISH MOTHS 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XIII. 
Insects. —Fig. 1. Stauropus Fagi (the Lobster). 2. The Caterpillar. 
sé Fig. 3. Hammatophora Bucephala (the buff-tip Moth). 4. The Caterpillar. 
ey Fig. 5. Clostera Anastomosis. 5. The Caterpillar. 
a Fig. 6. Clostera Reclusa (the small chocolate tip). 7. The Caterpillar. 
- ‘ig, 8. Clostera Suffusa. 
ct Fig. 9. Clostera Anachoreta (the scarce chocolate tip). 9. The Caterpillar. 
- Fig. 10. Clostera Curtula (the chocolate tip). 10, The Caterpillar. 
s Fig. 1]. Notodonta Dromedarius (the iron prominent). 12. The Caterpillar. 
a Fig. 13. Notodonta Perfusca (the dark prominent). 
“s Fig. 14. Notodonta Zic-zac (the pebble prominent), 15. The Caterpillar. 
a Fig. 16. Leiocampa Dictea (the Swallow prominent). 17. The Caterpillar. 
" Fig. 18. Leiocampa Dicteziodes (the swallow likeness). 19. The Caterpillar. 
Prants.—Fig. 20, Corylus avellana (the common hazel). 21. Populus tremula (the aspen). 22. Fagus sylvatica 
(the common beech), 
Figures 3, 6,10, 14, 16, 18, are from specimens kindly furnished me by Mr. H. Doubleday. The others are from British specimens in the 
British Museum, with the exception of C. Anastomosis, which is from a foreign specimen, and C. Suffusa and N. Perfusca, which are from 
Mr. Stephens’s figures. 
The caterpillars of 8. Fagi and N. Dromedarius are from Standish’s original drawings in the British Museum; all the others are from 
Hiibner. Although the forms of some of these larve are exceedingly singular, in the chrysalis form they present no striking peculiarity ; and I 
have not therefore thought it worth while to give figures of any of them. H.N. H. 

STAUROPUS*, Germar, Steppers. (HARPYIA, Borspuvar). 

This genus is at once distinguished by the male antennz having about one fourth of their length at the tip 
destitute of pectinations, the basal portion being bipectinated ; the female has the entire antenne simple. The 
maxillz can scarcely be called conspicuous (as described by Boisduval), consisting only of two rudimental lobes. 
The fore wings are narrow, elongate-ovate, with several elevated tufts of scales. But it is in the larva state that 
the genus is most easily distinguished, the caterpillar being of a most singular form ; whence it has obtained 
amongst collectors the name of the Lobster. Its singularity consists in the great length and slenderness of the 
second and third pair of feet, the angulated back, and the dilated, recurved extremity of the body, furnished with 
two long, slender, horny appendages, which take the place of the ordinary anal feet of the caterpillars. 
SPECIES 1.—STAUROPUS FAG]. Puare XIII., Fie. 1, 2. 
Synonymes.—Phal, (Bomb.) Fagi, Linnzus; Donovan, vol. 12, Terasion Fagi, Hiibner, Verz. 
pl. 328; Albin, pl. 58; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pl. 674 (Stauropus F.) ; Harpyia Fagi, Boisduval, Gen. et Ind. Meth. 
Wood, Ind, Ent, tab. 5, f. 23. 
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his rare species varies from 2+ to 3 inches in expanse; it is of a dull greyish-brown, with the fore wings 
varied towards the base and hind margin with reddish ; the base is pale, succeeded by a broad dark bar, with 
* Derived from the Greek oravpos, vallus, and wovs, pes; evidently in allusion to the singular feet of the larva. 

