Archive image from page 320 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( oeruka] NOTODONTIDAE 1. vinula. 4. bicuspis. . 3. Larva with two tubercles or rough spots on 2, back prominent on 3 or 4, anal prologs absent, anal extremity held aloft in repose, furnished with two long slender terminal processes con- taining exsertible filaments. Pupa in a hard woodlikc cocoon on bark of trees. 1. Lines of forowings partly orange-edged ,, „ not orange-edged 2. Anterior edge of band irregularly indented ,, ,, „ nearly straight 3. Posterior ed
Archive image from page 320 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( oeruka] NOTODONTIDAE 1. vinula. 4. bicuspis. . 3. Larva with two tubercles or rough spots on 2, back prominent on 3 or 4, anal prologs absent, anal extremity held aloft in repose, furnished with two long slender terminal processes con- taining exsertible filaments. Pupa in a hard woodlikc cocoon on bark of trees. 1. Lines of forowings partly orange-edged ,, „ not orange-edged 2. Anterior edge of band irregularly indented ,, ,, „ nearly straight 3. Posterior edge of band angulated or bent inwards 3. furcula. „ „ „ evenly curved . 2. bifida. 1. 0. vinula, L. 58-72 mm. Forewings whitish, veins par- tially blackish; a black subbasal dot; lines double, dark grey, forming black costal dots; first formed anteriorly of black dots, posteriorly subdentate; space be- tween first and median greyish- tinged ; median sinuate; second partly triple, very strongly den- tate ; a crescentic blackish discal mark; a terminal series of longi- tudinal dark grey interpleural marks. Hindwings in $ whitish, with grey discal crescent, in 9 groy. _ Britain to the Hebrides, Ireland, common; Europe, WC. and N. Asia; 5, 6. Larva green ; a broad Neumtion of Centra vlnuhi. purplish-brown pale-streaked white-edged dorsal band, narrowed to 4, thence expanded to 8, where it sometimes projects to prolog, and again narrowed to 12 ; head brown : on poplar and Salix ; 6-8. 2. C. bifida, Eb. 40-44 mm. Forewings grey-whitish; a black subbasal dot; lines double ; first nearly straight, formed by a series of black dots and a black orange-edged streak ; spaco between first and median densely irroratcd with dark grey ; median curved inwards, formed by a black orauge-edged streak and a fine dark grey line; second triple, dark grey, dentate, posteriorly black and orange-edged on upper half, followed by a dark grey suffusion ; a black discal mark ; large terminal blac
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