THE GALIUM CARPET. 



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paler ; on the back there is a series of pale blotches, and some 

 black spots on the middle rings ; 

 the head is rather paler than 

 the general colour, and marked 

 with black. It feeds, at night, 

 on cabbage, horseradish, wall- 

 flower, white arabis, and many 

 other kinds of Cruciferae ; and 

 it is said to eat the foliage of 

 gooseberry and currant. June 

 —October. 



There are certainly two 

 broods, and possibly more, as 

 the moths occur in greater or 

 lesser numbers throughout the 

 year, from late April to October, 

 but it seems to be most plenti- 

 ful in May and June, and in 

 August and September. 



Generally distributed over the British Isles 

 inhabitant of North America. 



Fig. 4. 



Garden Carpet at rest. 



(Photo by H. Main.) 



It is also an 



The Galium Carpet {Xanthorho'e galiata). 



The more usual forms of this species are represented on 

 Plate 81, Figs, i, 2. Fig. 3 is the portrait of a form occurring 

 in Yorkshire, Sussex, and probably elsewhere, in which the 

 central band is blackish and solid-looking ; this seems to be 

 referable to Jtnilobata^ Haworth. Besides varying in tint of 

 ground colour, and in the amount of freckling or mottling, there 

 is modification in the width of the central band. 



The caterpillar is brown, dotted with black, and striped with 

 blackish brown on the back, and with pale brown on the sides ; 

 the head is light brown, sprinkled with black, and marked with 



