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BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



C. vittata, Borkh. The Oblique Carpet 

 is flesh-coloured, the fore wings with three 

 double brown transverse lines, the second 

 of which is acutely angulated on the costa, 

 and with the third enclosing a central area 

 which is darker in its basal half, and contains 

 a black central spot. The slender apices 

 have a dark line dividing them. The sub- 

 marginal line is straight, edged on both sides 

 with somewhat darker. The fringes are finely 

 banded with darker in the middle. Hind 

 wings with a central spot and the same 

 markings as the fore wings, but less distinct. 

 It is found in Northern Europe, including 

 Britain. 



C. dilutata, W. V. The November Moth 

 is a large species with broad wings, fore wings 

 dark or light shining grey with numerous dark 

 transverse lines, here and there uniting, so 

 that the three areas are not sharply bounded. 

 In the middle of the fore wings there is usu- 

 ally a lighter band, with a detached central 

 spot, and the transverse bands which bound 

 the lighter band are darker, especially on the 

 nervures. The dark marginal line is formed 

 of lunules intersected by darker on the ner- 

 vures. The fringes are lightest between the 

 nervures on their terminal half. Hind wings 

 dirty white with darker nervures and an indis- 

 tinct dark posterior double transverse line. In 

 the variety autumnata, Guen. the ground 

 colour of all the wings is dirty white, and the 

 darker bands form a distinct central area, 

 forked in front. The variety obscurata, Staud. 

 is dark brown. The moth is common in Central 

 and Northern Europe in October and Novem- 

 ber. The larva is stout, and very variable in 

 colour. It is usually green on the back, and 

 whitish beneath, more or less spotted with red 

 or dirty brown, with a fine light dorsal line 

 and a broad yellowish one above the legs. It 

 feeds on various trees. The pupa is reddish 

 brown, short and thickened in front. It is sub- 

 terranean. ' 



C. filigrammaria, Herr.-Schaff. The Au- 

 tumnal Motii is very like the last species but 

 smaller, with narrower and more pointed fore 

 wings. These are pale grey with numerous 

 ilarker transverse waved lines, forming a dark 

 central band, with a black central spot. The 

 hind wings arc whitish. It is found in Scot- 



land and the North of England. The larva 

 feeds on heath. 



C. caesiata, W. V. The Grey Mountain 

 Carpet. Fore wings light bluish-grey with 

 greyish-brown transverse lines, which are more 

 or less suffused with golden-yellow, and two 

 darker transverse lines across the middle, 

 which are generally united towards the inner 

 margin. Between these two transverse lines 

 near the costa is a dark central spot, and 

 behind them generally a light double band. 

 The distinct zigzag submarginal line is spotted 

 with darker on both sides, especially towards 

 the front. The marginal line is composed of 

 dark dots on the nervures. The fringes are 

 spotted with darker on the nervures and are 

 also banded in the middle. Hind wings dirty 

 white with a dark central dot, but with the 

 posterior transverse band wanting or indistinct. 

 The marginal line and fringes are as on the 

 fore wings. It is found in Northern Europe 

 and the Alps in July. The larva is greyish- 

 green with triangular reddish dorsal spots 

 tipped with white and edged with black. It 

 feeds on bilberry in May and June. 



C. flavicinctata, Hiibn. The Yellow- 

 ringed Carpet resembles the last species, but 

 the wings are more strongly dusted with 

 golden-yellow, and the hind wings are greyer. 

 It appears in July and is found in Northern 

 Europe and the Alps. 



C. picata, Hiibn. The Short-cloak Carpet. 

 Basal area of the fore wings brown with 

 several dark transverse lines ; central area 

 dark brown with numerous darker irregular 

 transverse lines and an elongated central spot, 

 projecting obtusely in cells 2 and 3 and form- 

 ing also two short teeth, one on the costa 

 and the other on the inner margin. The 

 marginal area is white with a distinct submar- 

 ginal line, bordered on both sides indistinctly 

 with darker, and spotted with darker in 

 cells 4 and 5 and at the apex. The black 

 marginal line is interrupted on and between 

 the nervures. The fringes are spotted with 

 darker on the nervures. Hind wings light 

 grey with a central spot, several indistinct 

 transverse lines, and a white posterior band 

 and submarginal line. The thorax is brown, 

 and the abdomen somewhat lighter on the 

 sides, with white hind margins to the seg- 



