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found from September onwards in the latter part of the year ; 

 and on November 18th Mr. C. D. Wise reported to me from 

 Toddington, " We have found and are now catching, by 

 means of the lamps, the Figure-of-8 Moth." The arrange- 

 ment used in this case was by placing a lighted lamp under an 

 open shed, the underneath part of the roof or boards being 

 tarred and greased. 



The various kinds of washes or sprayings used to destroy 

 other orchard moth-caterpillars (for which see Index) would 

 be equally serviceable in the case of this attack. 



Lackey Moth. Bomhijx [Gastcro pacha) nemlria, Linn., Clmocampa 

 neustria, Curtis. 



1, Cluster of eggs ; 2, caterpillar (about one-third longer and wider than 

 natural size) ; 3, moth. 



The caterpillars of the Lackey Moth are injurious to the 

 leafage of Apples and other orchard trees, as well as to White- 

 thorn, Sloe, Oak, Elm, Birch, &c. They are very easily known 

 by their gay colouring, from which they take their German 

 name of " Livery Caterpillars," and the moth, the name of 

 " Lackey Moth." When fall fed (which is about midsummer) 

 the caterpillars are about an inch and a half in length, 

 and hairy ; of a bluish grey colour, marked with two black 

 eye-like spots on the head, two black spots with a scarlet 

 space between them on the next ring, and three scarlet or 

 orange stripes along each side, between the two lowest of 

 which on each side there is a blue stripe ; these gaily-coloured 

 markings being divided by lines of black, or black spotted 

 with blue. The eggs are laid in the summer or autumn of the 

 preceding year to that in which the attack takes place, and 



