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is flesh-colour, the back and ventral surface 

 being greenish-grey, with pale yellow dots. 

 There are three steel-blue lines on the back, 

 and a lemon-yellow line above the legs, edged 

 with black, and on each segment from the 

 eleventh to the thirteenth are black dots edged 

 with white below. It is found in June and late 

 in .Autumn on various low plants. 



M. pisi, Linn. The Broom Moth. PI. 

 XX\'. fig. I. Larva la. is common throughout 

 Central and Northern Europe in May and 

 June. The larva is found from July to Sep- 

 tember on various low plants, including peas, 

 vetches, etc., and also on whitethorn. 



M. brassicae, Linn. The Cabbage Moth. 

 PI. XXV. fig. 2. is abundant everywhere in 

 May and June. The larva varies from green 

 to brownish. When full grown it is dark 

 grey, with a greenish lustre, and has a broad 

 nearly black dorsal line, enclosing a row of pale 

 spots. On the sides is a white interrupted 

 line, darkly spotted above, and on the last 

 segments a few horseshoe-shaped spots. There 

 is a broad dirty yellow stripe above the legs, 

 which is reddish about the black-ringed white 

 spiracles. It lives from June to October on 

 cabbages and other vegetables, and is often 

 very destructive. 



M. persicariae, Linn. The Dot. PI. XX\'. 

 fig. 3. Larva 3a. is widely distributed and 

 common in Central Europe from May to August. 

 The larva is light or dark green or brown, 

 with a yellow dorsal line, and two thin black 

 lines on the sides. The head is green and 

 the belh' bluish green. It lives on Polygonum, 

 elder, wild vine, nettle, hop, and other plants. 



M. albicolon, Hubn. The White Colon. 

 Fore wings brownish grey, with a metallic 

 lustre and indistinct markings. The transverse 

 lines are black, and the submarginal line is 

 composed of yellow spots, with faint sagittate 

 markings on the inner side. Both stigmata are 

 somewhat paler. The reniform stigma has 

 two small white dots near the hind margin, 

 and there are similar dots on the nervures, 

 especially towards the hind margin. The 

 marginal line is spotted with yellow on the 

 nervures, and there are small black lunules 

 between. The fringes are darker, with two 

 curved bands. The hind wings are brownish 

 grey, darker towards the hind margin, with 



dark nervures and a marginal line. The head 

 and thorax are brownish grey, with black 

 tegulae, and the antenn.ne are simply ciliated 

 in the male. It is found in Central Europe 

 in May and June, but is not common. The 

 larva is similar to that of hrassico". It is dark 

 green, with three light dorsal lines, which have 

 black oblique streaks between them and a red- 

 dish stripe on the side. It lives on low plants 

 in July and August. 



M. aliena, Hiibn. Fore wings dark brown- 

 ish grey, the grey predominating on the costa. 

 Behind the reniform and close to the clavi- 

 form stigma the wings are reddish. Both 

 transverse lines ar-e paler, with a dark margin 

 on each side. The three stigmata are bordered 

 with black, the claviform being dark, and the 

 two others pale, with a brown centre. There 

 is a black streak from the middle of the base. 

 The submarginal line is pale yellow, with the W 

 mark only slightly developed. The deeply 

 dentated fringes are brown, with a row of white 

 spots. Hind wings ashy grey, with yellowish 

 fringes. The collar has two dark transverse lines, 

 and the abdomen is reddish grey. It is found 

 chiefly in East -Central Europe, including 

 Switzerland and Piedmont, in June, but is scarce 

 and local. The larva is brownish grey, with fine 

 longitudinal lines, black dots, and white spiracles 

 in black rings. It feeds in Autumn on Cytisns, 

 Anthyllis, Hippocvepis, etc. 



M. splendens, Hubn. Resembles (j/^ra^M, 

 but the fore wings are shining coppery red. The 

 central shade and the two transverse lines are 

 sharper, the latter being more zigzag. The sub- 

 marginal line IS finer and yellower, more sharply 

 suffused with darker towards the base. The 

 stigmata are distinct and yellowish. The reni- 

 form stigma is ^shy grey on the inner side. 

 The hind wings are yellowish grey. It is 

 found in June and July in the North of Germany, 

 Hungary, and Galicia, but is scarce every- 

 where. The larva is very variable; it is light 

 or dark brown, with three rows of very small 

 white warts in black rings. 



M. oleracea, Linn. The Bright-Hne Brown 

 Eye. PI. XXV. fig. 4. is common through- 

 out Europe in May and June, and again in 

 August, especially frequenting kitchen gardens. 

 The larva, which varies considerably, is dirty 

 greyish green or green with a number of black 



