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patch, and there is a triangular white spot near the anal angle. The hind wings are brownish or dirty white, 
with the anal angle marked by a dusky patch. 
The caterpillar is pale-green and glossy, with a slender yellow lateral line ; the under side pale fleshy-coloured. 
It is rather rare, occurring in the same situations as the preceding species in July. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XIV. 
Insects. —Fig. 1, Lophopteryx Camelina ( the coxcomb Prominent). 2. The Caterpillar. 
BS Fig, 3. Lophopteryx Cucullina (the maple Prominent). 4. The Caterpillar. 
“ Fig. 5. Lophopteryx Carmelita. 
a Fig. 6. Pterostoma Palpina (the pale Prominent). 
ae Fig. 7. Petasia Cassinia (the Sprawler). 8. The Caterpillar. 
- Fig. 9. Peridea trepida (the great Prominent). 10, The Caterpillar. 
. Fig. 11. Drymonia dodonexa (the marbled brown). 
a Fig. 13. Drymonia chaonia (the lunar marbled brown). 14. The Caterpillar. 
as Fig. 15. Gluphisia crenata. 
hy Fig. 16. Drymonia querna. 17. The Caterpillar. 
us Fig. 18. Ptilophora plumigera. 19. The Caterpillar. 
Prants.—Fig. 20. Acer Campestre (the common Maple). 
fs Fig. 21. Quercus Sessiliflora (a variety of the common oak), 
$n Fig. 22. Ligustrum vulgare (the common Privet). 
Figs. 1, 7, 9, 11, 13, are from specimens kindly furnished by Mr. H. Doubleday; all the rest are from specimens in the British Museum. 
The caterpillars 8 and 4 are from the original drawings of Standish ; Hiibner represents 8 of the same form, but white, delicately tinted with 
glaucous green, with conspicuous red stripes. The others are from Hiibner. H. N. H. 

LOPHOPTERY X *, Srepuens. 
This group is separated by Mr. Stephens, on account of the thorax of the species of which it consists being 
crested ; wings with the outer margins dentate; the hind margin of the triangular fore-wings with a simple 
lobe; the antennz of the males alone bipectinated ; the abdomen in the males terminated by a trifid scaly tuft. 
The caterpillars are furnished with one or two conical protuberances near the extremity of the body. 
SPECIES 1—LOPHOPTERYX CAMELINA. Prats XIV., Fie. 1, 2. 
Synonymes.—Phal. (Bomb.) camelina, Linneus; Albin, pl. 69, Odontosia camelina, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm. 
fig. 2, c, d,e; Donovan, pl. 183. Phal. (Bomb.) capucina, Linneus; Esper, 3, pl. 70, fig. 1—5. 
Lophopteryx camelina, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 5, f. 29. 
This species varies from 13 to 12 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish hue, inclining 
to brown, with a dark bar, angulated at each side, terminating at the brown posterior lobe, and succeeded by a 
paler bar, and gradually dilated towards the costa ; there are also other denticulated lines, and darker stripes 
varying in intensity in different individuals. The hind wings are ochre-brown, with a dark patch at the anal 
angle, glossed with blue. 

* Derived from the Greek, and alluding to the crest on the hind margin of the fore wings. 

