124 LLOYDS NATURAL HKSTORY. 



to feed; and the larvc^e are adorned with a beautifully 

 variegated pattern, which has led to the insects being called 

 Lackey Moths. 



THE LACKEY MOTIL CLISIOCAMI'A NEUSTRIA, 



Boiiihyx fieiisfn'a, IJnnoeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 500, no. 19 



(1758); id. Faun. Suec, p. 292 (1761); Esper, Schrnctt., 



iii.j p. 143, Taf. 27 (1785); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett., iii., 



figs. 179, 180 (1800?). 



Gasti-opacha neustria^ Ochscnheimer, Schmett. Eur., iii., p. 296 



(1810). 

 CUsiocanipa ncust7'ia^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 49 

 (1828); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 131, pi. 28, 

 figs. 6 a, b (1880) ; Buckler, Larvre of Brit. Lepid., iii., pi. 

 50, figs. 2, 2 a (1889); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl, iii., 

 p. 13, pi. 88 (1895). 

 The Lackey Moth is common throughout Europe, as well as 

 in Norlliern and Western Asia. 



It expands from one inch and a quarter to one inch and a 

 half. 



The antcnnre, body, and wings are all of a uniform colour, 

 varying from pale ochre-yellow to deep reddish-brown. 



Across the fore-wings run two reddish-brown, or, in the 

 darker specimens, yellowish, transverse lines, the first of which 

 is almost straight, and the second ratl^er curved. The space 

 between the lines is sometimes of a daiker colour, thus forming 

 a band, and the hind-wings are frequently crossed by a faint 

 dark transverse stripe. The fringes are unequally chequered 

 with lighter and darker. The under side is like the upper, 

 with a dark, band-like shade through the middle. 



The larva, which is very abundant in some years, is found 

 from the end of April to the beginning of June on all kinds of 

 fruit-trees, as well as on oak, poplar, whitethorn, sloe, &:c. It is 



