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The Lappet Moth has a wide range, extending throughout 

 Europe, as well as Northern and Western Asia. It has an 

 expanse of from two inches and a quarter to three inches and 

 a quarter across the wings. The antennae are blackish on the 

 outer, and red on the inner side. The head and thorax are 

 rust-colour, without markings, and the abdomen is rusty brown. 

 The wings are very strongly dentated, and the fore-wings are 

 light rust-coloured, dusted with yellowish-grey on the costa, 

 suffused with purplish towards the hind margin, and with the 



Lappet Moth. 



inner margin rusty yellow. In the middle is a small oval 

 black spot placed between two blackish transverse lines ; of 

 these, that near the base is waved, whilst the other curves 

 inwards from the costa, and is continued in a series of slightly 

 connected small curves obliquely to the inner margin. A third 

 line, less distinct than the others, runs near the hind margin, 

 and consists of blackish lunules, with the concave side directed 

 outwards. The hind margin is yellowish, and the teeth on it 

 black. The hind-wings are rusty yellow on the costa, shaded 

 with blackish in the middle, and crossed by two simple trans- 

 verse lines ; the hind margin is suffused with purplish. 



