AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, 221 
parallel with them ; the hind wings are pale ashy, with brown veins. The caterpillar feeds on the elm, and the 
moth appears in July and August. It is very rare, having occurred only near Darenth Wood, Kent, and in 
Norfolk. 


PHLOGOPHORA, Svrepuens. (PHLOGOPHORA, pars, Curtis, Borsp., &c.) 
Restricting this genus to the Angle-shades moth, it is characterised by the elongated fore wings, deeply 
undulated along the apical margin, which has a semicircular incision extending from the middle to the anal angle. 
The palpi have the terminal joint very short, obtuse, and scarcely visible; the thorax is crested behind as 
well as slightly in front ; the antennz are slender and simple in both sexes. The caterpillar is naked, and neither 
tubercled nor hairy, and of a green colour. It feeds on herbaceous plants, and the chrysalis is enclosed in a 
slender cocoon, placed on the surface of the ground. This genus is closely allied to Euphasia (ante p. 170) in 
the folding of the fore wings, larve, &c. 
SPECIES 1.—PHLOGOPHORA METICULOSA. Puare XLVIIL., Fie. 5, 6. 
Synonyme.—Phal. Noctua meticulosa, Linneus; Fabr. ; Hiibner; Treitschke ; Haworth; Donovan, 4, pl. 139; Albin, pl. 30, fig. 46, 
47,a—e; Wilkes, pl. 3; Harris, Aurelian, pl. 41, fig. c—e. Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 16, fig. 380. 
This handsome insect measures about 2 inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pinkish buff 
colour, with a Jarge, obconical, central patch of brown, fulvous and reddish shades occupying the centre of the 
wing, in which the two ordinary stigmata are obsoletely represented of a paler tinge ; from the posterior extremity 
of this patch, and towards the base of the wing, arises a smaller, irregular, somewhat triangular patch of a paler 
brown ; and beyond the central patch is a broad stripe of pale colour, on which are two very slender angulated 
strigee ; the apical margin itself is rather olivaceous brown, with the apex rosy, a brown lunate spot being placed 
near the tip ; the hind wings are whitish, with the veins, a central lunule, and a striga beyond the middle, and a 
broader subapical one brownish. The caterpillar is green or brownish, with an interrupted line down the back, 
and a pale lateral line. It feeds on nettles, chickweed, &c., and the moths appear in May and September, 
there being two broods in the year. Haworth and Stephens, indeed, describe it as having three broods in the 
year. It is a very common insect. 
CUCULLIA, Scuranx. 
The fore wings are long and lanceolate in this numerous and difficult genus; the palpi, with the terminal 
joint, very short, obtuse, and scarcely visible ; the antenne long, slender, and alike in both sexes; the spiral 
tongue very long ; the thorax crested ; the body long and crested, bifid at the tip in the males. The caterpillars 
are long, cylindric, naked, and coloured and variegated ; they feed on the flowers of syngenesious or scrophu- 
lariaceous plants, and the pupe are enclosed in a cocoon, being furnished with a singular elongated appendage 
arising on the breast, enclosing the elongated spiral tongue. Stephens divides the genus into two sections, from 
the denticulated or entire wings ; and Boisduval adopts the same sections, but characterises them from the food 
of the larvae, these species with denticulated wings feeding on Verbascum and Scrophularia. The indigenous 
species of this section are grouped together in our A8th plate, whilst the rest with entire wings occupy the 
49th plate. 

SPECIES 1—CUCULLIA VERBASCI. Prare XLVULI., Fie. 7, 8. 
Synonymes.—Phal. Noctua Verbasci, Linnzus; Ochsenheimer; | Aurelian, pl. 8, fig. a—e; Stephens ; ea aes Heat. 
: or. ; 
Fabricius; Hiibner; Haworth; Albin, pl. 13, fig. 18, f—k.; Harris, | France, 1833, pl. 1, fig. 6; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl, 10, Bg 
; ; 2 WI reddish brown 
This species measures from 12 to 2 inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a 

