THE EOYAL MANTLE. 



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blackish patch, and the rest of the wing is taken up with zig- 

 zagged and scalloped lines drawn as seen in the illustration. 

 There is a great resemblance between the various members of 

 this genus, and one or two, such as the Flame Moth {Antidea 

 rubidata) and the Shoulder Stripe [Antidea badiata), are so 

 much alike that a sharp eye is required to distinguish the one 

 from the other. 



The larva of this Moth feeds on the Lady's Bedstraw (Galium 

 veru7in\ and the colour is green with two black stripes along 



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1. Anticlea sinuata. 2. Scotosia certata. 3. Cidaria sagittata. 



4. Chesias spartiata. 6. Tanagra chcerophyllata. 



the back. There are numbers of little black hairs scattered 

 over the whole body. About the middle of autumn it is full- 

 fed, and then spins for itself a web among the leaves of its 

 food-plant. It passes the winter in the pupal state, and appears 

 as a Moth in the summer of the following year. 



