AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 6§9 
The caterpillar is green or reddish, with the back pale, a yellow line spotted with red at the sides, and two 
red points on the back at the extremity of the body. It feeds on oak, birch, poplar, willow, &c., and appears 
in May and at the end of September; the moth (according to Haworth) being produced at the beginning of 
5 
May and August. Boisduval, however, gives June alone as its time of appearance. It is one of our commonest 
species of Prominents. A figure of the larva in its more ordinar 
p. 385, fig. 2. 
y position is given in my Introduction, vol. ii, 

SPECIES 2.—LOPHOPTERYX CARMELITA. Puarn ALY... Fra. 5, 
Q r ry 7 mn serge > 1 ye > 2 Ms se ‘ 5 7 5 77 . 
Synonymes.— Bombyx carmeliia, Esper; Ochsenheimer 3 Stephens, | Bombyx capucina, Hiibner, (nec Linneus). 
Ill, Haust. pl. 14, fig. 3; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 6, f. 31: | 
This species measures rather more than 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which have the fore margins 
reddish-brown, with a small white spot before the middle, and a larger triangular one beyond the middle ; the 
posterior margin of the wing is pale greyish-white, with a slight purplish tinge, and an oblique row of dusky 
spots at some distance preceding the outer margin. The disk is also irrorated with light and dark freckles, 
especially along the veins, and the hind marginal tooth is brown. The hind wings are reddish-brown, with a 
slight pale fascia crossing them beyond the middle, terminating in two dark abbreviated streaks near the anal angle. 
The caterpillar is green, with a yellow dorsal line and a stripe of the same colour, but spotted with red on 
each side above the feet. It feeds on the birch. 
Extremely rare. Found in Darenth and Ongar-park Woods in the spring, March (Stephens), May (Bois- 
duval). In the cabinets of the British Museum and Zoological Society. 
This and the preceding species form a distinct section in the genus, the larva having two conical lobes on the 
terminal segment. 
SPECIES 3.—LOPHOPTERYX CUCULLINA. Puare XIV., Fie. 8, 4. 
Synonymes.— Bombyx Cucullina, Wien, Verz.; Hiibner; Och- | Bomb. cuculla, Esper; Borkhausen ; Haworth; Donovan, vol. x., 
senheimer ; Boisduval (Notodonta Cuc.), | pl. 338, fig. 1; Stephens (Lophopteryx Cuc.) ; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 5, 
| fir, 30 
5° ° 
This species measures from 14 to 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale ochre colour, 
spotted and striped with brownish-red, especially beyond the middle and along the hind margin, and with a 
broad sub-apical whitish fascia, interrupted in the middle; the costa has several short dark streaks beyond the 
middle ; the hind wings grey brown, with a dark brown red patch at the anal angle. 
The caterpillar is pale grey, with a dark patch on the back of the anterior segments, beyond which the 
segments are dorsally elevated, and with a more distinct conical protuberance near the extremity of the body. 
It feeds on maple and some of the species of thorns, and is found in August. The moth appears at the beginning 
of the following summer. It is very rare in England, but sometimes occurs in the woods of Kent. 


PTEROSTOMA *, German. (PTILODONTIS, Srepnens.) 
PRP mre 
This genus is at once distinguished by the great length of the palpi (which are nearly half as long as the 
antenne), which, together with the crest on the thorax, and the two lobes on the hind margin of the fore 
oc ~ }9 9 ra) 

in allusion to the large palpi appearing like a pair of small wings attached to the mouth. 
* Derived from the Greek, 


