THE MILLER. I9I 



pale ochreous, covered with soft hair ; the pencils of long hairs 

 on the first ring, and the tufts of hairs on rings four, five, and 

 eleven, may be red, greyish, or blackish ; the broken stripe 

 along the back is greyish, and the stripe low down on each side 

 may be red, brown, or greyish. It feeds in June and July, and 

 as a second generation in September, on the foHage of beech, 

 birch, hazel, hornbeam, etc, : bushes growing in exposed 

 positions such as a hedge bank or hill side are chiefly fancied. 

 The moth flies in May and June, and again in August and 

 September. It probably occurs in most of the English counties, 

 but is most frequent in Berkshire, Bucks, and Devon. Not 

 uncommon in Clydesdale, but more plentiful in Aberdeenshire, 

 and is also obtained in Perthshire, and in other parts of Scotland. 

 Widely distributed in Ireland. 



The moth is shown on Plate 100, Fig. 2, and the early stages 

 on Plate loi, Figs. 3, 3^/, 3/^. 



The Miller {Acronyda leporind). 



In its typical form the wings are quite white with but little in 

 the way of marking. Most, if not all, the specimens occurring in 

 Britain are the more or less greyish suflused and more marked, 

 variety known as bradyporhia^ Treits. (Plate 100, Figs. 3 5, 

 4 9-) Sometimes the outer margins of the fore wings, beyond 

 the second cross line, are shaded or dusted with blackish (var. 

 seniivirga^ Tutt). In the Liverpool district a form is occasion- 

 ally obtained in which the fore wings are darkly suffused, and 

 the thorax is black (var. nielanocepJiala, Mansbridge). A 

 specimen with black fore wings and white fringes has been bred 

 from a caterpillar found in Essex {Enfofnologist, xxxviii., 289, 

 and xxxix., 97). 



The caterpillar is pale green clothed with long white, and a 

 few black hairs ; these fall downwards, and on the one side curve 

 forwards, and on the other side backwards. Sometimes in the 



