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Before moulting it is entirely green, but when full-grown the 

 back is pale green, and the ventral surface minutely sprinkled 

 with black ; the sides are marked with oblique whitish or 

 yellow streaks. It feeds on birch, beech, hazel, lime, and 

 other forest-trees. The pupa is blackish. The male flies 

 during the day, and with such rapidity that it is very difficult 

 to catch. 



The Kentish Glory has always been considered rather a 

 scarce insect in Britain, but this is hardly the case, for it is 

 widely distributed in England and Scotland, from Tilgate 

 Forest, in Sussex, to Rannoch, in Perthshire. It is, however, 

 local, owing to the large forests which it prefers being no longer 

 numerous in Britain. The males, though difficult to capture 

 on the wing, can easily be attracted, if any are near, by the 

 presence of a female newly emerged from the pupa, which 

 may be carried in the collector's pocket. This mode of 

 collecting, which is called by entomologists " assembling," is 

 equally efficacious with the Oak Eggar, and many other 

 moths. The females may be found resting on the ends of 

 birch twigs. The Kentish Glory is not a difficult moth to 

 rear, if eggs or larvce are procurable. 



FAMILY XXIX. BRAHM^ID.F:. 



" Proboscis present, palpi large, rounded and upturned. 

 Antennce bipectinated in both sexes; mid-tibia with a single 

 pair of spurs ; hind-tibia with two spurs. Frenulum absent. 

 Fore-wing with vein i b forked at the base ; i c absent ; 5 

 from near the upper angle of cell. Hind- wing with two 

 internal veins, the cell short, with a veinlet in it ; vein 5 

 from near the upper angle ; 6 and 7 given off near the base ; 

 8 free from the root, and nearly touching 7 beyond the 

 cell ; a pre-costal vein." {Ilaiiipson.) 



