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may be found during the late summer and early autumn feeding 
on poplars and willows; and of the caterpillar of Stauropus 

Fig, 246.—Dicranura verbasci. 
fagi, the Lobster-moth (Fig. 247), rare in this country, whose 









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Fig. 247.—Larva of the Lobster-moth ( Stauropus fagz). 
appearance is strange indeed. The moths, on the contrary, have 
nothing about them remarkable. 








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Fig. 248.—Noctua tegamon. 
The Noctuina are a group of Lepidoptera of. middling size, and 
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