150 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Manchester Treble-bar (Carsia pahidata). 



In general character this species somewhat resembles that 

 last considered. It is, however, much smaller, and there are 

 reddish clouds on the outer marginal area. 



This reddish shading is more or less absent in the type, 

 which is otherwise less variegated than var. iinbutata, the 

 form to which our British specimens are almost entirely 

 referable. (Plate 55, Figs. 9 and 10.) 



The caterpillar is of somewhat stoutish build, and reddish 

 brown in colour ; three darker lines along the back, and yellow 

 stripe low down along the sides, the latter edged above with 

 black on the front three rings, and blotched with pinkish on the 

 middle rings ; the head is rather paler than the body, and the 

 dots on the latter are yellow. It feeds on cowberry {Vaccinium 

 %'itis-idced) and cranberry {V. oxycoccos), and seems to have a 

 preference for the flowers of these plants : April to June. 



The moth is out in July and August among the Vaccinium in 

 its swampy haunts on the heaths and moors of the north of 

 England, and Scotland, even to the Shetlands. McArthur 

 took a specimen in the Isle of Lewis in 1901. It also occurs 

 in Ireland. In England it does not seem to have been noted 

 south of Staffordshire. 



The range abroad extends to Eastern Siberia and Amurland. 



The Streak {Chesias spar Ha id). 



The most strikmg features of this shining brownish coloured 

 species are the oval-shaped marks on the disk of the fore wings, 

 and the long whitish streak running to the tips of the wings. 

 (Plate 57, Figs. 3 6,4 ?•) 



The long caterpillar (Plate 56, Fig. 2) is deep green, with a 

 darker line along the middle of the back, and whitish lines 



