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LITHOMIA, Hisner. (CLOANTHA, a. Gutnéez; XYLINA, p., Bov.) 
This genus has the antennz of the males furnished with short brushes of hair on each side beneath ; the palpi 
have the terminal joint slightly exposed at the tip; the fore wings are long and narrow, and when at rest are 
closely deflexed ; the thorax subquadrate, but not tufted in front. The caterpillars are smooth and cylindrical, 
with the penultimate segment angularly elevated above. It feeds on Vaccinium Vitis Idea, and the perfect 
insect appears at the beginning of the autumn. 

SPECIES 1.—LITHOMIA SOLIDAGINIS. Prats XXXL, Fie. 8. 
Synonyme.— iVociua solidaginis, Hiibner ; Treitschke ; Duponchel ; Curtis, Brit. Ent, pl. 683; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 52, fig. 1667. 
This species measures nearly 13 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a light grey colour, with 
several black lines towards the base ; the central part dark brown, edged with two dentated black lines ; in the 
place of the anterior stigma are two small round grey dots, placed obliquely, and the outer stigma is large, ear- 
shaped, and pale grey margined with black ; beyond this is a grey dentated line, emitting several long, arrow- 
like, wedge-shaped black dashes, and the margin slightly spotted with brown; the hind wings pale brown, with 
a yellowish tinge ; the base whiter, with a faint central bar; the tippets and frontal lobe of the thorax edged 
with black. The caterpillar is reddish brown, irrorated with dusky, and with a few whitish dots on each 
segment, and a pale yellow line on each side edged with black. The moth appears in August and September, 
and has been taken in Lancashire at a place called the Brushes, about two miles beyond Staley Bridge, near 
Manchester, where they occurred in abundance in 1837. 


DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXII. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Xylophasia lithoxylea (the light arches). 
4 Fig. 2. Xylophasia sublustris (the reddish light arches). 
if Fig. 3. Xylophasia polyodon (the dark arches). 
: Fig. 4, Xylophasia rurea (the clouded bordered brindle). 
a Fig. 5. Xylophasia combusta (the dark tawny). 
2. Fig. 6. Xylophasia characterea (the clouded brindle). 7. The Caterpillar. 
< Fig. 6. Xylophasia scolopacina (the slender clouded brindle), 
: Fig. Y. Xylophasia rectilinea (the clouded brocade). 10. The Caterpillar. 
Puants.—Fig. 11. Clematis vitalba (Hedge clematis, or Traveller’s joy). 
The whole of the above insects are figured from specimens sent to me by Mr. H. Doubleday, with the exception of X. scolopacina, from 
Continental specimens in the British Museum, and X. rectilinea from the unique specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Marshall, The caterpillars 
are from Hiibner. H. N. H. 
XYLOPHASIA, Srepuens. (LUPERINA, e. Botspvuvat.) 
This genus, although united with Xylina by Curtis and various other authors, is abundantly distinguished 
from that genus, not only in its perfect, but also much more in its preparatory states ; indeed, by recent French 
writers the two groups are very widely separated in their classifications of this difficult family. The antennz of 
the males are scarcely ciliated, whilst they are simple in the females ; the palpi are of considerable size and bent 

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