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INSECTS AT HOME. 



but there are one or two points about it wbicli are the same in 

 all the varieties. The uj^per wings are always brown of some 

 shade, and much darker than the lower pair. Each of the 

 Vipper wings has in the middle a little button-like tuft of 

 greyish-white scales, from which the popular name of Button 

 Moth is derived ; and along the lower edge of the wings there 

 is a streak or dash of the same* hue. 



LIX 



1. Epliippiphora fenolla. 



2. Epliippiphora smtulaiia. 3. Peronea cristana. 



4. Cnephasia octomaculnna. 



5. Xanthosetia zoegana. 



This Moth is not rare, though it is rather local, occurring in 

 some profusion in those spots wherein it takes up its residence. 

 Woods and forests are the localities which it generally pre- 

 fers, and it appears from the end of summer throughout the 

 autumn. 



The very conspi-^.uous Notchwing (Teras caudana) deserves 

 a short description, on account of the peculiarity of the upper 



