PLUSIA. 



The Burnished Brass Moth is common throughout the 

 greater part of Europe as well as in Northern and Western Asia. 

 It expands from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half. 



The Burnished Brass Moth. 



The head is orange-yellow, and so is the collar, which is 

 bordered with grey, whilst the tegulae are varied with grey and 

 brownish. The thorax is grey, with a well-marked orange- 

 coloured crest. The abdomen is yellowish-brown, with three 

 tufts, the first of which is dark rusty brown, and the two others 

 yellowish-brown. The antennae are yellowish-brown and the 

 legs whitish-grey. 



The fore-wings are short and broad, and strongly emarginate, 

 with pointed tips. They are greyish-brown or reddish-brown, 

 with a broad band near the base, usually of a golden-green 

 colour, but somewhat variable in tint, the green predominating 

 in some specimens, and the yellow in others. There is a 

 second band of the same colour beyond the middle, which is 

 placed obliquely, and is not uncommonly united to the first 

 by an oblong patch near the inner margin. Near the apex is a 

 deep brown transverse line, and the nervures are also of this 

 colour. The fringes are greyish-brown or reddish-brown. The 

 hind-wings are greyish-brown, with a metallic gloss, and rather 

 darker on the hind margin. The fringes are yellowish-grey. 



The moth is double-brooded, and the larva is found in May 

 and June, and again in August and September. It feeds on a 



